Defining Disk Image Dump Standard

From: Jacob Dahl Pind <rachael__at_gmx.net>
Date: Wed May 31 11:36:39 2000

>On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:38:55PM +0000, Mark wrote:
>>The Catweasel disk controller hardware (available as an ISA card for PCs) is
>>capable of similar things. However due to its developer (stupidly IMO)
>>refusing to release details on how to program it directly, this would be of
>>no use; you're stuck with the provided drivers which are apparently pretty
>>poor.

>I thought he had changed his mind about this? When I first talked to him
>he seemed pretty paranoid, but I think he eventually realized that there's
>not a big enough market for there to be even a point in stealing his idea
>and competing with him (although, I sure hope he's done a PCI version by
>the time ISA slots disappear entirely). I certainly remember that he
>softened his position about this, but I don't know if that turned into a
>manual. Then again, the CW/ISA board comes with no manual anyway!

>Anyway I sorted out a lot of the Catweasel/ISA details, from disassembly and
>the few sources that were available when I was doing it, it might be enough
>to write a driver (I've gotten stuck with my own work on RX01 and RX23 style
>drivers, I can read data enough of the time to think I'm really close but it
>works less than half the time).

>Here's what I've worked out on the I/O ports (default base is 320h):

Oh, i might try some of this info I have a catweasel, sitting in my amiga
thoug. I would love to find a way to access the wierd 1mb format of the
old cbm 8250 drive.

Regards Jacob Dahl Pind
Received on Wed May 31 2000 - 11:36:39 BST