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Floppy Controller
Individual Computers: Catweasel Mk-II
Connection: Clock Port, Zorro II |
A1200 Version
Zorro II Version
Hi Res Image of A1200 version - 97K
Hi Res Version of Zorro II Version - 192K
The catweasel Mk II is available in two versions, one designed to connect to the A1200's clock port and the other is a half length Zorro II card. This card allows the addition of up to 2 floppy drives and 6 IDE devices. It can use cheap PC floppy drives, both 3.5" and 5.25" in any combination as well as other formats. This card is basically a combination of the Catweasel and the Buddha IDE controller. You cannot however boot from the floppy drives. The controller also contains sophisticated algorithms to help read failing, sensitive or corrupted disks. Reading PC formatted disks is 2.15 times faster than using a native drive, and Amiga formatted disks are 1.3 times faster. The device also supports the use of floppy controller based tape drives, with a thru-put of up to 2MB/sec. It does not support DMA, but contains a local expansion port for adding additional expansions.
Supported File Systems
Platform | File Systems |
---|---|
Amiga | OFS OFS International FFS FFS International |
Apple IIe | DOS 3.3 (and newer) |
Apple Macintosh | HFS |
Atari 800XL | Atari 800XL formatted. |
Atari ST | ST DOS |
C64 | DOS 2A |
PC | FAT12 FAT16 VFAT12 VFAT16 |
Supported Disk Types
Platform | Disk Type |
---|---|
Amiga | 3.5" DS, 880K 3.5" DS, 1.76MB 5.25" DS, 880K 5.25" DS, 1.76MB |
Apple IIe | 5.25" ? |
Apple Macintosh | 3.5" SS, 400K 3.5" DS, 720K 3.5" DS, 800K 3.5" DS, 1.44MB |
Atari 800XL | 5.25" ? |
Atari ST | 3.5" DS, 720K 3.5" DS, 800K 3.5" DS, 1.44MB |
C64 | (CBM 1541) 5.25" SS, 170K (CBM 1571) 5.25" SS, 170K (CBM 1571) 5.25" DS, 341K (CBM 1581) 3.5" DS, 800K |
Catweasel Extra | 3.5" DS, 1.16MB 3.5" DS, 2.38MB |
Nintendo Backup Station | 1.6MB |
PC | 3.5" DS, 720K 3.5" DS, 1.44MB 5.25" DS, 360K 5.25" DS, 720K 5.25" DS, 800K 5.25" DS, 1.2MB |
SS = Single Sided
DS = Double Sided
Contributions to this page by:
Erol Ismael
Letzte Änderung des Artikels: 2009-01-25 18:14
Revision: 1.0
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