6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
11:10 a.m.
Yeah, I wouldn't up rather disappointed myself as well... I bought the
ISA version and was hoping to eliminate the need to have to keep reading
ST formatted disks into my ST and null-modeming them over to my PC, but
instead to install a seperate 3.5" to the Catweasel and just natively
read them in, it recognizes the disks, but won't copy the data, nice
hardware, worthless without software support and after all these years
still nothing much except some 3rd party TRS-DOS drivers have been written.
I have a ton of Amiga Quarterback disks I'd love to read in with it, but
looks like that's not happening either.
Curt
Zane H. Healy wrote:
2) Opinions of
the board would be much appreciated, particularly in the
context of what it *can't* do, how easy it is to code for, how easy it
is to get hold of others' code to handle a particular format (rather
than reinventing the wheel), how well the board copes with media errors
etc.
I bought the Zorro 2 version of the board for my Amiga years ago,
based in part on the fact that they advertised all these different
formats it could read. What they failed to mention was that drivers
only really existed for Commodore 64 disks (you could also read PC and
Mac disks). I was seriously ticked off.
I think with the PCI model, especially in a Linux box, you might have
better luck. I've actually considered buying a PCI version in spite
of my bad experience with the Zorro 2 model.
Zane