CATWEASEL MK4 PCI

[redrumloa]

I finally formatted a SSDD floppy on the 1571 and verified that it was OK, a put it in the 5.25” drive attached to the Catweasel, loaded Ghostbusters D64 file and wrote it back to the floppy. I watched as the drive hummed and clicked and the screen showed the blocks being written. I then put it back in the 1571 and tried to load it with no luck. A check of the directory showed an empty formatted disk. Perhaps it’s just this ancient 5.25” drive. I can still write images to disk using the MMC Replay and the real 5.25”, but this problem is a mystery to me.

Try again. I've found every now and then it will act like it wrote the disk, but didn't. Do it a second time and it should.

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@alexh

It's been a while since I wrote an Amiga 880k disk, but I've done 170k 5.25 floppy fairly recently. Writing a 170k D64 back to a real floppy takes about ~5 seconds. I've never timed it, but the speed is crazy fast.

[redrumloa]

Cheers. I've tried it several times with different floppies with no luck. I'm not giving up though.

But did you try it twice in a row on the same floppy?

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Try another floppy drive :-(

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@Darrin

Not all drives will work with the Catweasel. Last time I tried it took me until the 3rd drive to find one that was compatible.

If you google hard enough you may find a 5.25 drive compatability list, there's one out there somewhere in cyberspace.

[redrumloa]

I've got a couple of spare C128s that don't work correctly so their SID chips are going into my Commodore-One board when it arrives.

Be careful! The 6581 SID and 8580 are different chips and use different voltages!

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Darrin wrote:

redrumloa wrote:

Be careful! The 6581 SID and 8580 are different chips and use different voltages!

Ah, so you can only use the C64 SID chips on the C-One?

I forget if there is jumpers for 8580 or not. Keep it in mind and check the manual before installing the 8580.