WTB Catweasel Mk4 Plus floppy cable

[danbeaver]

The cable looked identical to a 34-pin PC floppy cable to me; I sold my 2 cards in favor of a MK2 as I didn't have a PC with  WinXP 32-bit, and hated emulation on a PC.

[danbeaver]

The pin out of the cable has no way of telling what type of drive it is connected to; the drive itself, as I recall, sends this info back on its first initialization by the controller.  On the amiga, the drive spins at least once and a binary code is sent back to ID it.

Kernal manual on hardware

[danbeaver]

I've never heard of this problem, and always use a standard cable (or my adapter cable to let me use 3" drives).... but then on AmigaOS 4 you set the drive type in the prefs program.

Are you using it on a PC?

I've never heard of a drive identifying itself anyway - even PCs can't do that, you have to tell them in the BIOS. Are you sure you're not just missing a setting in the software?

Well, I don't know about PC's but the Amiga does it as I described above; certainly there is no cable line for the type of drive.

Commodore Amiga Book: Amiga Hardware Reference Manual (1985)(Commodore) Page 357, Appendix I for Device ID:

https://ia801709.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/7/items/Amiga_Hardware_Reference_Manual_1985_Commodore/Amiga_Hardware_Reference_Manual_1985_Commodore_jp2.zip&file=Amiga_Hardware_Reference_Manual_1985_Commodore_jp2/Amiga_Hardware_Reference_Manual_1985_Commodore_0364.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0

[danbeaver]

Can you show a picture of the cables you have used?

[danbeaver]

Have you tried the CW MK4 in an Amiga?  I used one in my X1000 and it worked fine; after all, PC's are pieces of junk.