CATWEASEL MKII Advanced Floppy Disk Controller for the Amiga
Catweasel is a universal floppy disk controller that uses unmodified PC diskdrives. The Catweasel can handle nearly any disk format, you simply have to provide a suitable 3.5 inch or 5.25 inch drive. With Catweasel, cheap PC floppy drives can be used to access any of the disk listed further below. More formats may be added with further software updates. The following list of formats applies to all versions of the Catweasel.
Sophisticated error correction algorithms enable you to read otherwise unreadable disks. This provide a much better chance of reading normally unreadable floppy disks. You can connect up to two drives to the Catweasel, and the two drives can be any combination of 3.5" and 5.25". Catweasel MK2 for Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000 The fastest HD disk drive for your Amiga! Compared to a standard Amiga-HD drive, Catweasel-drives are up to 2.6 times faster! This peak value is reached when accessing PC 1440K disks. The performance on Amiga HD disks is also very good: We have cracked the speed barrier of 50 seconds for reading a whole Amiga 1760K disk. A HD drive by any other vendor takes more than 80 seconds for the same operation. The Catweasel software is programmed to be totally system-conforming: Programs like ReOrg, Fusion, Frodo, CrossDos and CrossMac work fine with the Catweasel. The latest version of Diavolo Backup also supports the Catweasel, so you can make backups on XTRA HD disks with 2380K per disk! There are two ways to connect the Catweasel MK2: In the A1200, it fits onto the clock-port. That is the small 22-pin header located between the Kickstart ROMs and the memory chips. The function of a real-time clock fitted to an accelerator board or a memory board is not harmed. In the A4000, the Catweasel MK2 is connected to the internal IDE port. Again, the function of the IDE port is not harmed in any way. The pass-through on the Catweasel can still be used to connect two IDE devices, one master and one slave. When connected to the A1200 clock-port, the local expansion port is also activated. This port is for the I/O extender "HyperCom 3 plus". The Catweasel MK2 is shipped with all the necessary cables and the software on disk, including a filesystem that lets you access C-64 disks as if they were Amiga-disks. You can either directly access files, or make the popular .d64 images. If you feel like writing a .d64 image back to a disk, it's no problem with this filesystem. The disk can then directly be placed into your old C-64 drive! Technical description Catweasel Zorro II/III card The Zorro-Catweasel is a combination of two products. This product comprises a Buddha IDE controller and a Catweasel MK2 on the same card. The Buddha has an extra IDE port, so you can connect up to six IDE or Atapi devices. Also supplied is the full Buddha software package as well as the Catweasel software package.
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