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Re: Catweasel success stories?
« on: December 03, 2006, 08:58:42 AM »
Hi,

As Trev says, the imaging software provided with the Catweasel is basic, but functional. I've dumped loads of floppies with it and not had any show-stoppers.

One PITA that I've experienced (but not all users seem to) is that when asked to read or write a disk, the software starts before the disk has had a chance to be spun up. If the disk has just been inserted without being rotated by the drive, this can cause problems as the software is blindly reading/writing while the lug on the drive mechanism is trying to make contact with the corresponding hole on the metal hub of the disk. Remedy is to start the read/write operation, stop it, then re-start it.

Use of the Catweasel within WinUAE could also do with some improvement. It'd be nice if the Catweasel drive could replace the emulated DF0:, rather than appearing as a separate CAT: device.

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