New Windows drivers for Catweasel

Paul · 04 December 2006, 19:45

Schoenfeld posts @ Amiga.org: "After the last update about three months ago, we mainly received bug reports that referred to writing Amiga disks. The errors could not be reproduced on our test systems immediately, therefore the solution took longer than we wanted our customers to wait. Many thanks must go to customers who paitiently reported bugs and helped us test the new drivers.

The new beta version (now a release candidate) can be downloaded for free from our support page on www.ami.ga.

The cause for the error that has been finally resolved was the floppy drives that are currently available on the PC market, where DD-disks practically do not exist any more. These drives have been extremely optimised for low production cost. We know about one drive that does not work with DD-disks (720K, 880K) any more, it's the Samsung SFD-321B.

The re-configurable architecture of the Catweasel MK4 allows hardware updates through the driver. We found a possibility to write DD-disks with such disk drives. However, they cannot be verified or read with that kind of drives, but they can be read with most DD drives in classic Amiga computers. This lets you use the drives temporarily until you can install a recommended true dual-mode drive, for example by Teac. One thing that you should avoid is writing HD disks with DD density.

Some customers wanted to connect 5,25-inch drives with 360K capacity to the Catweasel. The imagetool now allows the necessary configuration for that. Last not least, a problem with the middle and right mouse buttons of an Amiga mouse has been resolved."

Source: Amiga.org

Photon · 05 December 2006, 12:29

Is this one newer than the Aug 24 ones mentioned a month or so ago?

Photon · 05 December 2006, 19:48

Hmm can't find any new drivers under Support. Are they somewhere else? :S

Paul · 05 December 2006, 19:54

Found the link....I hope

Direct download: http://siliconsonic.de/t/bin/CWMK42100.zip

http://ami.ga/news/news121_e.htm

stainy · 05 December 2006, 21:12

Thats the ones!

dlfrsilver · 06 December 2006, 01:59

it seems to work great now !!!

i wait for custom disk support !!!! ^^

04 December 2006, 19:45	#1
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	New Windows drivers for Catweasel Schoenfeld posts @ Amiga.org: "After the last update about three months ago, we mainly received bug reports that referred to writing Amiga disks. The errors could not be reproduced on our test systems immediately, therefore the solution took longer than we wanted our customers to wait. Many thanks must go to customers who paitiently reported bugs and helped us test the new drivers. The new beta version (now a release candidate) can be downloaded for free from our support page on www.ami.ga. The cause for the error that has been finally resolved was the floppy drives that are currently available on the PC market, where DD-disks practically do not exist any more. These drives have been extremely optimised for low production cost. We know about one drive that does not work with DD-disks (720K, 880K) any more, it's the Samsung SFD-321B. The re-configurable architecture of the Catweasel MK4 allows hardware updates through the driver. We found a possibility to write DD-disks with such disk drives. However, they cannot be verified or read with that kind of drives, but they can be read with most DD drives in classic Amiga computers. This lets you use the drives temporarily until you can install a recommended true dual-mode drive, for example by Teac. One thing that you should avoid is writing HD disks with DD density. Some customers wanted to connect 5,25-inch drives with 360K capacity to the Catweasel. The imagetool now allows the necessary configuration for that. Last not least, a problem with the middle and right mouse buttons of an Amiga mouse has been resolved." Source: Amiga.org

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05 December 2006, 12:29	#2
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05 December 2006, 19:48	#3
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	Hmm can't find any new drivers under Support. Are they somewhere else? :S

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Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Found the link....I hope Direct download: http://siliconsonic.de/t/bin/CWMK42100.zip http://ami.ga/news/news121_e.htm

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stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	Thats the ones!

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