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New Windows driver for Catweasel |
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Written by Demon Cleaner
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Monday, 04 December 2006 |
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"After the last update about three months ago, we mainly received bug
reports that referred to writing Amiga disks. The errors could not be
reproduced on our test systems immediately, therefore the solution took
longer than we wanted our customers to wait. Many thanks must go to
customers who paitiently reported bugs and helped us test the new
drivers. The new beta version (now a release candidate) can be
downloaded for free from our support page.
The cause for the error that has been finally resolved was the floppy
drives that are currently available on the PC market, where DD-disks
practically do not exist any more. These drives have been extremely
optimised for low production cost. We know about one drive that does
not work with DD-disks (720K, 880K) any more, it's the Samsung SFD-321B.
The re-configurable architecture of the Catweasel MK4 allows hardware
updates through the driver. We found a possibility to write DD-disks
with such disk drives. However, they cannot be verified or read with
that kind of drives, but they can be read with most DD drives in
classic Amiga computers. This lets you use the drives temporarily until
you can install a recommended true dual-mode drive, for example by
Teac. One thing that you should avoid is writing HD disks with DD
density.
Some customers wanted to connect 5,25-inch drives with 360K
capacity to the Catweasel. The imagetool now allows the necessary
configuration for that. Last not least, a problem with the middle and
right mouse buttons of an Amiga mouse has been resolved."
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Last Updated ( Monday, 04 December 2006 )
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