Normally I wouldn't do something like this, but I suspect I'm not the only
one that will find this of interest. I'm posting some of the data because
the web page is almost impossibly slow!
Well looking for new Amiga web pages I found a most interesting Web page
about the "Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller". It can be found at
http://www.rat.de/apd/catweasl.htm basically there are two flavors, one for
a standard IBM PC, and one for the Amiga. Since it's primarily for use
with the Amiga the Amiga version is more advanced, but even the PC version
is most interesting.
I've seen these for sale by some of the Amiga companies, but I didn't
realise the wide variety of formats supported. Now I'm seriously thinking
about getting one for my PC and one for my Amiga!
Zane
Here is a list of the formats the Web page lists.
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The Catweasel uses standard 3.5inch and 5.25 inch floppy drives and reads
the following formats:
These File-systems are supported:
- CBM 1541 (DOS 2A)
- CBM 1571 (DOS 2A), single-sided & double-sided
- Amiga OFS
- Amiga OFS localised
- Amiga FFS
- Amiga FFS localised
- PC FAT12
- PC FAT16
- PC VFAT12
- PC VFAT16
via disk-image file (and therefore also sector by sector)
- CBM 1541, 5.25" single-sided 170 KB
- CBM 1571, 5.25" single-sided 170 KB
- CBM 1571, 5.25" double-sided 341 KB
- CBM 1581, 3.5" double-sided 800 KB
- Amiga, 3.5", double-sided 880 KB
- Amiga, 3.5", double-sided 1760 KB
- Amiga, 5.25", double-sided 880 KB
- Amiga, 5.25", double-sided 1760 KB
- Atari ST, 3.5", double-sided 720 KB
- Atari ST, 3.5", double-sided 800 KB
- Atari ST, 3.5", double-sided 1440 KB
- IBM PC, 3.5", double-sided 720 KB
- IBM PC, 3.5", double-sided 1440 KB
- IBM PC, 5.25", double-sided 360 KB
- IBM PC, 5.25", double-sided 720 KB
- IBM PC, 5.25", double-sided 800 KB
- IBM PC, 5.25", double-sided 1200 KB
- Catweasel-Extra, 3.5", double-sided 1160 KB
- Catweasel-Extra, 3.5", double-sided 2380 KB
- Apple Macintosh, 3.5", single-sided 400 KB
- Apple Macintosh, 3.5", double-sided 720 KB
- Apple Macintosh, 3.5", double-sided 800 KB
- Apple Macintosh, 3.5", double-sided 1440 KB
- Apple IIe, 5.25", single-sided 140 KB
(sector access only) Sinclair QL
(soon:) Atari 800XL (amiga catweasel can, read-only in the moment)
(not yet) Armstrad 3" (please send us a drive and some floppies)
(not yet) 8 inch Floppy (please send us a drive and floppies)
(not yet) Any other Shugart floppy (please send us a drive and floppies)
Currently only the Amiga version can write (most of them) to disk. The
PC-ISA Catweasel will be able to write in the future... only a software
update
is needed!! It won't be too long now! The software for the PC-ISA Version
can handle 4 controllers (8 Floppy Drives!) and uses no DMA and no
IRQ!
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator |
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Received on Sat Jan 03 1998 - 17:37:24 GMT