Catweasel online manual for the Amiga versions

Catweasel online manual for the Amiga versions

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Using the Catweasel-drives

The drives of your Catweasel are not referred to as dfx: . There's a name for every diskformat that you're going to use. The names are:

TD0, TD1                Amiga-DD-disks in 3,5" drives (880 Kbytes)
TH0, TH1                Amiga-HD-disks in 3,5" drives (1760 Kbytes)
PD0, PD1                MS-Dos-disks in 3,5" drives (720 Kbytes)
PH0, PH1                MS-Dos-disks in 3,5" drives (1440 Kbytes)
OH0, OH1                MS-Dos-disks in 5,25" drives (1200 Kbytes)
EX0, EX1                XTRA-HD disks in 3,5" drives (2380 Kbytes)
CBM0, CBM1              Commodore 1541-disks in 5,25" drives

Macintosh 1440KByte-disks in Catweasel drives are supported directly by the Shapeshifter V3.7 and up. Please read the readme-file for support of Mac 800 Kbytes disks.

AmigaDos Versions

To use the Catweasel drives, you need at least Workbench version 2.1 or higher. Further, Commodore has made some mistakes when "updating" some files, so there occurred some bugs during our beta-tests that are not caused by the Catweasel software. Here are three things where multidisk.device can't work around without your help:
The copy-command V38.x sometimes trashes target data, so it should be replaced by a newer one (version 40,x or higher).
CrossDosFilesystem V41.x only "asks" mfm.device for a diskchange, so the filesystem won't recognise when you're removing a disk from a catweasel drive. Either use CrossDosFilesystem V38.x, or use the patch from the utilities-directory of the Catweasel disk. For a description of this program, see contents of the disk. Oldfilesystem/FastFilesystem of the 3.0 and 3.1 ROMs make enforcer hits if you're entering a MaxTransfer value of 0x80000000, that means your computer crashes without any visible reason. Just don't use this value, it doesn't even make sense: Who can transfer 2GBytes off a floppy disk?