31 Dec
2001
31 Dec
'01
7:34 a.m.
> Has anybody ever actually SEEN and USED any
software for the catweasel
> that will make an Amiga disk (NOT duplicate one that is present)?
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
Not me, though, I've seen documents (probably in
UAE) that say you can
write disks to images and images to disks if you use it. The
linux/netbsd/freebsd drivers, from all I've seen and heard, should
access disks fine for making images and the like.
That sounds promising. I'd still like to know if anybody has been
successful.
I think that
"MatchPoint" might be their board that you're
thinkking of.
I was thinking of compati-card, actually. I was un-aware that it
had
this same limitation. I may have to see if I can find one of these
"MatchPoint" boards now,
though. What are my chances?
I see them occasionally, but not often.
What software
is available for Mac to do Amiga disks?
Again, I seem to remember from docs that
UAE will use it directly.
So you'd be stuck with a chicken-egg scenario where you need an image
of the O/S (or boot disk) to get it working. :) Otherwise it would
work fine. I have seen mappings for the linux fdparam (I think
that's the
program..) which will make your system use the format at a low level,
and have heard that catweasel works with linux. In that case you can
image/unimage the disks pretty simply.
Certainly the PC hardware, regardless of OS or other software can NOT do
Amiga.
Can the Linux catweasel drivers actually use the catweasel as its disk
controller for the file system? Or is this an issue that the catweasel
software (that does NOT work at a filesystem level) can also RUN under
linux?
As for a program that reads/writes the filesystem (I
assume that's
what you're asking...), I don't know of one, but I believe that given
Yes,
that's exactly what I'm interested in. Sorry, I should have been
clearer.
the number of people interested in amiga emulation,
somebody must have
written one. If they havent, get an amiga emulator set-up, and
chances are that will do it for you. (Again, I seem to remember
mention of this in the UAE docs)
Has anybody, anywhere, EVER gotten a catweasel to work as a controller to
do file system level operations?
I would, of course, be interested to hear from anyone
who's really
tried it. :)
Yes.
I've heard a LOT of people say things like "it can do it" (without having
actually tried) or "it could do it", or "it should be able to do it".
But
never that it DOES do it.
I've yet to see any word from anybody who has successfuly gotten the
catweasel to work in ANY way other than the most low level track read.
It certainly SHOULD be capable. But there seems to be some problems
getting the software working.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com