Hi there
I would be interested in learning how well the Catweasel MKIII Flipper performs in a Pegasos with Morphos.
My goal would be reading and writing 5 1/4 inch c64 floppies with the peg. is this possible at the moment? what are your experiences? are the joystick ports usable with low-level library?

kind regards
christian

I would like to know that, too.
I want to read C64 and Amiga disks and use the SID with
MorphOS/Debian Linux, if possible.
Where can I buy a CW MK3?

I mostly use my CW MKIII to read Amiga floppies. I haven't tried any other disk types yet although I will attempt once my Peg2 is properly setup (I'm using my old Peg1 until a replacement part for the Peg2 shows up).

There is a lowlevel library that can be used with it. It's called newlowlevel.library, although its 68k and initially programmed for use with Amithlon. ( http://www.vmc.de/amithlon/eng_ami_news.html ). With some tweaking you can use the peg's PC-style game port as one joystick, and the catweasel as another, or program both ports on the catweasel. (Note: only a single firebutton is supported on the catweasel port's AFAIK.)

Apparently the newer frodo release (posted in the news section in the past) supports the SID chip in a Catweasel as well.

Seems to read Amiga disks just fine...however it seems that it cannot write them (at least mine can't...) so not much use for data transfer to an Amiga.

Steve

Uh...there is no problem writing whatsoever.

Kenny...

I'm intrigued...was exchanging converstaion on #morphos with a guy who has exactly same problem as me.

I can't format a disk, whether MSDOS (fat95) or Amiga (FFS) format...get some sort of seek failure at the end.

Any chance you could post your mountlists and device versions here so we can compare?

Could also be related to brand of floppy drive? Do you know what your is?

Thanks,

Steve

And that guy was ME :) .... As JKD says writing refuses to work here no matter what I do. Writing small files to the disk corrupts it.... Formating fails if verify is enabled... And "standard" format doesnt seem to do anything more than destroy the data completely. When trying to write a bigger file to a disk it just refuses to transfer the file, with a checksum/write error poping up.

@jkd

My PH0 mountlist:

FileSystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
Device = multidisk.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 3 /* makes a PC HD Disk driver */
BlockSize = 512
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 18
Reserved = 1
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 79
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 1
Priority = 60
GlobVec = -1
DosType = 0x4D534400
StackSize = 65535
Activate = 1

My PD0 mountlist:

FileSystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
Device = multidisk.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 2 /* makes a PC Disk driver */
BlockSize = 512
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 9
Reserved = 1
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 79
Buffers = 60
BufMemType = 1
StackSize = 65535
Priority = 5
GlobVec = -1
DosType = 0x4D534400
Activate = 1

I have CrossDOS version CrossDOSFileSystem 42.5 (21/05/1998), but Fat95 also works. If you have an older crossdos that might be the problem.

My drive is a cheap, unbranded PC floppy drive.

No no... It's definetly not CrossDOS related, as any filesystem whatsoever used gives the same problems... And besides... If CrossDOS works with volumes mounted under other devices it should also work with multidisk.device ... unless its severly ####ed up...

I tried the mountlists above... And it didnt work... My old ones look more or less the same also ...

Now.. If your'e 100% SURE writing works... Then its something else... What version of multidisk are you runing (IIRC there was only one released)... And are you using a Pegasos2 or Pegasos1? And also... What PCI slot is the catweasel located... Maybe the cybpci.library is partly broken on Pegasos2..? (If you are runing Peg1 that is, that might be the explanation) .. Because for some strage reason I seem to have the memroy that writing worked on the Peg1... I thought maybe I was imagining things, but maybe that's not the case... :)

It may be the floppy drive; according to the manual not all works. Teac is recommended.

... ;) ... And thats exactly why I have tried 3 different drives... One TEAC.... One Samsung... and one compaq floppy drive... All of them give the same result...

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I am. I've copied my CV to PC floppy many times and it's readable from office PCs. I've also formatted the disks properly a lot, too.

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Pegasos 1, multidisk.device 3.63 (11/04/2003). The PCI slot I use is the riser slot, just beneath the AGP slot.