Catweasel online manual for the Amiga versions

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The Dosdriver files

You can also make the files in the directory DEVS:Dosdrivers on your own, here's an explanation of the lines in these files. The information in these files is only passed over to the filesystem, not to the device. They must comply with the physical dimensions of the disk, otherwise you will get a lot of errors. In some cases, the filesystem replaces information from the mountlist by information from the GetGeometry() function of the multidisk.device, so with certain filesystems some lines in the mountlist may be ignored. You can't change the physical dimensions of the disk by changing the mountlist. For a list of formats you can use see explanation of the FLAGS field.

This is the name of the exec-driver. The exec-driver is the interface to your Catweasel Controller. Every software that wants to access Catweasel-drives opens this driver.

This tells the device which drive to use.

This is probably the most important line in the file, because with this number you're telling the multidisk.device what type of disk you want to access. Programmers should know that the Flags-field of the mountlist is the same number as the "openflags" for multidisk.device. Programmers should look at the text-files in the "developers" directory on the disk.

  0  Amiga DD                     880   Kbytes          double-sided
  1  Amiga HD                    1760   Kbytes          double-sided
  2  MS-DOS DD                    720   Kbytes          double-sided
  3  MS-DOS HD                   1440   Kbytes          double-sided
  4  Atari 10 sector              800   Kbytes          double-sided
  5  Atari 11 sector              880   Kbytes          double-sided
  6  Commodore 1581               800   Kbytes          double-sided
  7  XTRA high density           2380   Kbytes          double-sided
  8  MS-DOS HD 20 sector         1600   Kbytes          double-sided
  9  Macintosh DD                 800   Kbytes          double-sided
 10  Macintosh DD                 400   Kbytes          single-sided 

This document © Copyright 2000 Jens Schönfeld, individual Computers.