Re: 5.25" disks: Formatting without that GRINDING...

[Ernest <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com>]

Moll wrote:
 
> I don't mind the reboot click, which is also a recalibration noise, but
> the GRIND is real loud and annoying, and was always my pet peeve with
> the ][, especially the //c's drive and the Unidisk/Duodisk.

Have you ever used ADT to make an image of a faulty disk? Mother of Gawd,
that's an awful noise. It makes that terrible grinding noise (3 times each)
everytime it can't read a point on the disk, so if a disk has three
unreadable places in a row, you get nine of those obnoxious grinds in a
row. It'll clear a room faster than a fire alarm klaxon.