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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: prowler on January 17, 2010, 06:46:18 AM
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I have a Sam440ep and a mountain of original Amiga software which I have purchased over the years. Most of this software is on floppy disk.
I was wondering if anyone has any experience with a catweasel on a Sam running AmigaOS4? I have seen mention that someone is working on an AmigaOS4 driver for the cat weasel but how usable is it all?
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We have tested the latest Catweasel MK4 Plus (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=842) driver for OS4 on the SAM440 (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=sam+flex). It works with reading/writing disks however it is incomplete and there are some bugs still present.
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Thanks for the information and your honesty on the current state of the drivers. How bad are these bugs?
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I am using it on my AmigaOne XE being able to read Amiga disks and create ADF files of them. There was a clear statement on the readme of driver version I have downloaded that only reading capabilities are possible. Writing features were disabled, thta means that there was no possibility to format or write @ 880k I did the tests lets say early-mid summer. Maybe there has been a newer version of the driver bringing back the writing features.
http://www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/download/file.php?id=164
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Yes, there is a newer version - but it's not publically released. I can email it to you if you like.
I could stick it on OS4Depot (it's better than that version as it has read/write support) but it's not really finished, as you can't format MS-DOS disks for some reason.
PM me your email address and I'll mail you a copy when I can.
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I am using it on my AmigaOne XE being able to read Amiga disks and create ADF files of them. There was a clear statement on the readme of driver version I have downloaded that only reading capabilities are possible. Writing features were disabled, thta means that there was no possibility to format or write @ 880k I did the tests lets say early-mid summer. Maybe there has been a newer version of the driver bringing back the writing features.
http://www.amigaplanet.gr/forum/download/file.php?id=164
Hrmmm, sounds like it will currently do about 80% of what I want which is to install some older applications and to create some adf's to use under uae.
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Creating ADFs works just fine as it's just a read. You can even use the publically available one on OS4depot for that, probably.
I installed North and South on my AmigaOne using my driver with no problems, except I had to manually dump the disk as the installer was expecting to use DF0: to read the image.
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I went out and bought one of these for my Sam440ep. Unfortunately, it appears I needed a riser card that goes in the opposite direction to that which is supplied with the Sam for the case I have. Time to try and annoy the company I got the case from for the appropriate PCI riser card.