On Jan 3, 13:12, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin_at_xenosoft.com]
> > The "standard linux floppy disk driver" will operate the
> > Catweasel card?
> > (It is NOT a floppy disk controller in terms of BIOS level
> > interaction.)
>
> I was under the impression that it would drive a catweasel card. I was
not aware that the card was significantly different than other (normal
peesee) floppy interfaces, though, so perhaps I got the wrong idea from
somewhere.
As far as I was able to determine, when I looked into this in the autumn,
the only support for the Catweasel under Linux is via a special driver
called cwfloppy, NOT the normal floppy driver. This works with Amiga disks
(and has limited MS-DOS support) only, and only for the ISA version on x86
and Alpha machines. Quote from the Catweasel page, ISA version section:
'Writing to disks is only possible under Linux at the moment. The
drivers are not designed to be easy-to-use. Instead, they are tools
"for-freaks-only". You can read disk images from the formats listed
above, and single files can be copied from Amiga, PC and C-64 disks.'
If you look at the driver homepage, it doesn't even mention C-64 or disk
images. There are some additional utilities to allow it to do things with
TRS80 disks, though.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Jan 03 2002 - 15:43:03 GMT