18 Feb
2010
18 Feb
'10
12:58 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:49 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>wrote:
I'm rather disappointed with my catweasel. The
hardware is very nifty and
full of promise, but drive support is terrible. I wonder what prevents the
deviceside gizmo from writing to disks. If that could be added and then
extend the thing to handle 3.5" and 8" disks, then I'd be very happy.
Jens has a habit of outsourcing the software production to other people.
Someone else wrote the software that gets distributed with the catweasel. I
agree that it's terrible. I asked him whether the source code was
available, but apparently it's not. He says that adding read/write support
for a new device is easy, yet it never happens.
I believe someone has software for linux that support the catweasel. In
that case, it would be open source, but I haven't had the time to look into
it.
brian