I've been contemplating getting one of the PCI catweasel cards, and the
website says they will work in a Mac, but will it work under Mac OS X?
Also, will it work only through a special utility, or will the computer
be able to use it as a regular disk drive? (i.e. mount media on
desktop, drag files to and from) Likewise, would there have to be some
utility or something to tell the computer that a disk has been
inserted, or would this new controller be able to sense that? There is
a disk change line on PC floppy drives, but the standard PC controller
doesn't support it. (IIRC)
Ian Primus
ian_primus_at_yahoo.com
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 01:32 AM, Jeffrey H. Ingber wrote:
> I've been looking at these controllers on and off for awhile. What
> advantages do these have over a Central Point Option Board?
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 01:24, Tim Mann wrote:
>> Version 3.0 of my Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools is now available
>> at
>> http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80resources.html. This release adds
>> support
>> for the new Catweasel MK3 PCI card. The older Catweasel MK1 ISA is
>> still supported as well.
>>
>> Standard blurb on the tools:
>>
>> The Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools are software for the Catweasel
>> universal floppy disk controller. The tools run on both Linux and
>> Windows 95 or MS-DOS. Source code is included under the GPL.
>>
>> cw2dmk will read several kinds of floppy disk, some of which ordinary
>> PC
>> controllers have trouble with, and save them in the DMK disk image
>> format. (DMK is a format used by the Unix TRS-80 emulator xtrs and by
>> David Keil's TRS-80 emulator for MS-DOS.) cw2dmk does not just read
>> TRS-80 disks; it can handle (at least) any disk written using a
>> Western
>> Digital 177x/179x floppy disk controller, a PC-style NEC765-compatible
>> controller, or a Digital Equipment Corporation RX02 controller.
>> dmk2cw
>> will write any DMK image back to a real floppy disk, and handles the
>> same kinds of disks as cw2dmk.
>>
>> The package also includes the programs dmk2jv3 and jv2dmk, which
>> convert
>> between the DMK image format and the JV1 and JV3 image formats. These
>> programs work without a Catweasel and can be useful for moving images
>> between different TRS-80 emulators.
>>
>> --
>> Tim Mann tim_at_tim-mann.org http://www.tim-mann.org/
>
Received on Sun Dec 08 2002 - 09:16:01 GMT