Anyone want to test Catweasel Mk4 drivers under OS4?

@Spirantho

I've tested the driver on a MK3 and its working OK so far.

Only thing I've notice on the MK3 so far is I'm having difficulty formatting a disc at 720K once its been 880K formatted. I'll have another try later and get some more info for you.

Is it possible to make the cw.device a kernel module like A1floppy.device so its available at ESS and also for it to identify as trackdisk.device for software that looks for that specifically.

Is it possible to use a single mountlist for DD & HD Disks ?

@Akiko

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They work with the A1 & MK3, make sure you have Amiga Keyboard in input prefs checked also. I only have a CDTV keyboard here now and AFAIK it wired differntly to an A4K keyboard so it doesn't work in catweasel with out some kind of homemade adapter to swap the pins assignments around.

If I can find a wiring diagram to MOD my CDTV keyboard. I'll test it on a MK4 at let you know.

But As COD Modern Warfare 2 came today it might take me a few days (weeks) to get around to it

@ thread.

SID works with VICE only in the MK3 not the MK4 so it would appear VICE needs some work to make it compatible with the MK4. You need to connect the either the MK3's mono output or CDROM type connector to an input on your sound card or directly onto JP33 or JP34 on the A1 if your lucky enough to have one with the sound chip.

Warning there is so much "Bus Noise" you'll need to keep the the input for the MK3 muted in mixer for every day use as otherwise just dragging a window around will require milspec ear defenders.

@Jurassicc

Formatting 720K doesn't work at all yet - I don't know why! I've not looked too much into it yet though as I'm very busy at work again now.

I have no idea about how to make it a kernel device, sorry... but if any OS4 devs want to help I'd be more than willing to try. It would be cool to boot off an Amiga FFS disk. :)

As for trackdisk compatibility - yes, it's possible. In fact you could probably do it in a hex editor yourself. :)

@Valiant

I have no idea why the original drivers would work and mine wouldn't ... they use the same code for all the initialisation! If you're just reading Amiga DD disks there's practically no change as it was already working.

@Spirantho

I have posted it many times already there exists a beta version that was distributed to select few.

Whit support for reading and writing, 720, 880, 1440, 1760 disk.

Only I have the source code to this version.

Full CrossDOS support.
68k stubs for compatibility whit older programs, theoretically complete trackdisk.device replacement.

@Spirantho

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Well, they did work after a fashion (if you only wanted to read one disk at a time with every reboot). Even diskchange wouldn't release the first disk read. But the recent drivers (11-5-09) work a treat with the automatic polling. I hope your SuperDiskImage adds features that CatFloppy doesn't have...

@Spirantho

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I'd like to know this too. Might be useful for "diskimage.device", like being able to boot from an ISO file.