Catweasle HELP

[amigadave]

I have not had good luck with my attempts to setup and use my new Catweasle MK IV PCI card.  First, contrary to what Software Hut told me, the Catweasle drivers DO NOT work with Windows XP x64.  Okay, my mistake for buying an OS that does not have many drivers written for it yet, so I then installed Windows XP Pro (32bit version) and was able to install the latest Catweasle drivers for the floppy drive.  I used Image Tool to read and copy a couple of Amiga floppies to adf images on my hard drive.  The next day I plugged in a joystick to see if I could use it with Amiga Forever 2005 and XP wanted more drivers for what it thought was a new VGA device.  None of the drivers included on the Catweasle CD or the drivers on their website were recognized as the correct drivers for the joystick, so I cancelled the install process and started AF2005.  No joystick control.  The bad part is now Win XP no longer sees the Catweasle as "simple communications controller" as it did when first installed.  It sees a multimedia audio controller and a vga controller, both of which have no drivers and the floppy drive no longer works.  I have found the documentation for the Catweasle to be very lacking, so I am asking here for help and advice from you experts that are already using your Catweasle controllers.

 :getmad:

[amigadave]

@hektic,

Thanks for the reply.  What version of Catweasle do you have?  What version of Windows are you using?  The installation paper (4 pages) from Individual Computers explains that Windows Add Hardware Wizard will find a new card of type "simple communications controller".  This happened when I first installed the card, but there has not been any "Catweasle controller PCI" in the device manager.  

I will try uninstalling the non-existant drivers and remove and replace the Catweasle card, then try installing the drivers again.

P.S.  What and/or how do you use your Catweasle?  Floppy, keyboard, joystick, mouse?  Which devices on the card do you use and how.  Do you use them with WinUAE/Amiga Forever or just from Windows?

[amigadave]

Update - I tried reading a disk from Windows A:\, then opened the properties of the Catweasle drivers in Win XP Pro, didn't make any changes, just looked at them and closed them and then tried cilcking on the Image Tool again and it worked!  I remember reading somewhere that after the Catweasle floppy drivers are mounted the PC floppy controller can no longer access the drive until a reboot, but there was no mention of how to mount the Catweasle drivers.  I am sure there must be a simple way to do this, but I don't know it (probably something I have done twice accidentally when the Image Tool worked).  Colanto sent me a message stating that they have included drivers in the default 3.x configuration of Amiga Forever in the Storage/DosDrivers drawer.  I will be trying them out later today and will report back if I get them to work under AF2005/WinUAE.  I will get this figured out eventually.

P.S. Colanto is working on better use of the Catweasle in the future.