Catweasel Question

[irishmike]

Hello:

I have decided to buy a catweasel to make transferring file from images to 720K floppies (as PC formatted).

At this time, I am also planning to make the switch from Windows XP to SuSE Linux 10, which is going to be a major change and I notice that there is no driver for the CW board for Linux included... has anyone used this board under Linux?   I suppose that worse case, I will get VMWare running on Linux and load XP as a VM and then I can wipe it whenever it gets a virus.

Hope someone has had this experience.

Thanks,

[beller]

I just installed the Catweasel last weekend in my EMachine.  Works great.  I'm not sure I'd switch to Linux just so I could avoid viruses, McAfee seems to be doing the job, but I believe there is a Linux driver at the Individual Computers website: www.ami.ga

I didn't fully realize that, with the CW in place, you could read/write Amiga formatted disks directly under emulation.  Do a search for Catweasel in the forums for the instructions on how to set it up.  Very cool tech, as usual from Individual!

Bob

[irishmike]

I have been deciding to run Linux for quite a while, since Windows 2000 and even back in Windows 95 days.   I just was waiting for certain programs to be available that I can't seem to find for any platform but Windows or my Macintosh and of course those (4 in total) programs keeps the need for Windows.  I just came back to XP from Macintosh last month and twice I have had a worm or a virus take out my system... the spyware problem and that combined have motivated me to switch, but the clencher was the DCRM horror stories in the new Vista.  Time to be Open Source all the way for this kid.  Of course, if Amiga 4 would get fully implemented and run on the PC hardware, I would love that :-)  AMI was the way I wanted to go in the first place.

Anyhow, SuSE is quite nice to me.

[Piru]

I have decided to buy a catweasel to make transferring file from images to 720K floppies (as PC formatted).

Uhhuh. You don't need catweasel for this. Amigas can read/write 720K pc formatted floppies just fine.

In fact you can ever read amiga floppies on PC. See http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/3-118.html

The only unique amiga floppy related thing catseasel really offers is writing amiga formatted disks (880K, 1760K).

Catseasel does have some other goodies though, like some amiga ports, possibility for SID chip etc.

[irishmike]

Piru wrote:

Uhhuh. You don't need catweasel for this. Amigas can read/write 720K pc formatted floppies just fine.

In fact you can ever read amiga floppies on PC. The only unique amiga floppy related thing catseasel really offers is writing amiga formatted disks.

Catseasel does have some other goodies though, like some amiga ports, possibility for SID chip etc.

The images are Amiga Floppys I am going from ADF to the 720K floppies.  I note that my original post was not clear on this.

So I am making Amiga floppies with the Catweasel, but the question is does the card work under Linux.

Thanks,

[Piru]

Ah you mean double density 1MB floppies. The formatted capacity only confuses here, since it really is 880K for amigas floppies, and not 720K.

[irishmike]

This is really off the question, however, yes we are referring to normal DD/DS 3.5 floppies which are currently formatted for PC and are going to be used for Amiga disks.  The use for the Catweasel is to make the floppies from the ADFs.  

The question is:  Does the Catweasel work under Linux?  What the capacity of the floppies or why I wanted it is really off topic here :-)

The answer seems to be YES there is a Catweasel driver for Linux, so theorhetically, the thread is solved.

[InTheSand]

Hi,

Let us all know how you get on with that - my Catweasel is in my XP machine, but I run Ubuntu Linux on my other PCs and would be interested to know how you get on with reading/writing Amiga disks under Linux (and I'm too lazy to open the case and move the card to another PC!)...

 - Ali