Installation guide for the CatWeasel on a Pegasos motherboard

[redrumloa]

The CatWeasel is an excellent piece of hardware, unfortunately the installation on anything other than a traditional Classic Amiga can be a daunting task.

Installation guide for the CatWeasel MKIII on a Pegasos motherboard with MorphOS1.3.
By Jim Farley (aka redrumloa)
Copyright 2003 Amiga.org, Morphzone.org



The CatWeasel is an excellent piece of hardware, unfortunately the installation on anything other than a traditional Classic Amiga can be a daunting task. The scope of this article only includes setting the card up for use of the floppy controller on a Pegasos computer under MorphOS1.3. The additional features of this card as far as I know do not have capable drivers at this time for MorphOS.

1.   Catweasel CD files:
The driver CDR that comes the hardware does not read properly on MOS.  You will need to manually move these files from another computer to the Pegasos. You may do this by copying the files to another blank CD, FTPing from box to box, emailing them to yourself, or however is most convenient. I do not recommend using the install script so you wont need to copy many files.
*Copy the files PD0 and PH0 from folder DEVS/DOSDRIVERS over to the Pegasos and put in your DEVS/DOSDRIVERS folder.

2.   Download:
Download the replacement multidisk.device, unpack and put in your MORPHOS/DEVS folder.
*Download the most recent openpci.library and put in the MORPHOS/[color=FF0000]LIBS[/color] folder.

3.   Legacy files:
You will need to use some legacy files. These can be obtained from AmigaOS3.1, OS3.5 or OS3.9. Transfer them to the Pegasos somehow.
*Mount (recommend the OS3.1 version), put in C folder. [color=CC0033]Remove the MORPHOS/C/mount file![/color]
*FastFileSystem, put in L folder
*CrossDOSFileSystem, put in L folder

4.   Amiga Mountlists
Download and copy these mountlists to you DEVS/DOSDRIVERS folder for Amiga floppies.


Once you do all this shut down the computer. You have done the hard part! Now go ahead and physically install the card and the floppy drive. Use the connector on the floppy cable BEFORE the twist. Close everything up and start the computer. You should now be enjoying your new floppy controller.

Many thanks to JoannaK, Wayne and Targhan. Without their help this guide would not have been possible.

Information provided here is explained to the best of our ability. Any corrections or recommendations are appreciated. This text is not an exact science but a rough draft. This document may be freely distributed without prior consent as long as it is done on a nonprofit basis and it is reproduced in it’s entirety with the credits intact. Warning! All information contained in this article is provided on an AS-IS basis. The author, Amiga.org and Morphzone.org take no responsibility for damage due to improper installation, hardware failure, act of God or any other abnormality.

[redrumloa]

If you try this out please give feedback so we know if the guide was helpful or it a revision is needed.

[odin]

What about PC usability? ie using it with UAE?

Excellent effort, 50% for joannak and 50% for redrum.

;-)

[JoannaK]

According WinUAE documents, it should work... I have not tested though myself.. I prefer to have it on Pegasos  :-)

[redrumloa]

What about PC usability?

It works with Windows, a little ackward as you have use a specific utility(IE not like just another drive).

ie using it with UAE?

It works, also a bit odd to set up, and you have to disable the windows driver because of a conflict. But people have gotten it to work.

Excellent effort redrum.

Thank you:-) JoannaK deserves at least half the praise though:-)

[Jope]

Not having one yet, I'd like to know why can't you just jumper the drive as DS1 and put it after the twist?

Some drives can't even be jumpered to DS0 any more.. (or does the CW3 require the drive to be DS1 and before the twist?)

What unit number do you use for the floppy drive in the dosdriver? What's the DS setting on the drive you installed?

Oh well, I'll be sure to do some experimenting once I get my CW3.

[bbrv]

Thanks to Joanna and Jim!

:-)

R&B
Genesi

[AdamC]

I would like to add that it's possible to use the
Fat95 filesystem available for free on Aminet instead of CrossdosFilesystem.
Just edit the mountlist to change this.
I use the Mount command from Mos 1.3 and it works, no need for other mount command.

I can format PC floppy disks, but I can't format
Amiga disks, only read and write.
Any idea ?

The Catweasel is available in France at
http://www.aps.fr

[redrumloa]

Some drives can't even be jumpered to DS0 any more.. (or does the CW3 require the drive to be DS1 and before the twist?)

No it doesn't, I was just trying to make this guide as simple as possible.

What's the DS setting on the drive you installed?

There are no visible jumpers on the floppy I installed. It's a standard new PC floppy.

[JoannaK]

Next target. To get Sid player for CW3.

[Paul_Gadd]

Joanna and Jim have done a good job there.

Upload the info to Aminet.

[sdesros]

*Download the most recent openpci.library and put in the MORPHOS/C folder.

Is that correct?  Shouldn't that be morphos/libs and not morphos/c?!?!

(Still working on getting it to read Amiga disks. )

[redrumloa]

Is that correct? Shouldn't that be morphos/libs and not morphos/c?!?!

Yes it should, thanks fot the heads up!! I'll fix it.

[meerschaum]

looks great... I'd like to buy one when I get my Peg2 ... make it a little more  'classic' feeling

[redrumloa]

Wow not even 24 hours and this is copied, almost word for word but translated into German.

HERE

At least some credit could be given to the original people responsible. Yeesh!! That's even my picture!