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1. button the keyboard is ready to be used You can even use this keyboard to enter the login information on the next reboot Please mind that certain software SID players emulators might talk to the Catweasel hardware directly and de activate the driver In that case the keyboard will not work until that software has been closed so you should have an alternative keyboard handy 15 We apologise for the inconvenience we re working on an improved installation process Linux There are several drivers for linux available please refer to their respective documentation e cwfloppy http www soundtracker org raw cwfloppy index html a block device driver e cw http www unusedino de cw a floppy driver e CatWeasel http Ilg cubic org cw SID Joystick and Amiga Keyboard driver e hardsid http hardsid sourceforge net SID driver e hardsid catweasel http www bel fi alankila blog 2005 12 30 HardSID Catweasel 200 01 html another SID driver Amiga e want to use the Catweasel MK4plus in my Amiga have PCI slots and OpenPCI installed What software do need The directory amiga on the driver CD contains the LHA packed driver disk for the Catweasel MK2 anniversary edition This includes the latest multidisk device V3 65 which also recognizes the Catweasel MK4 plus in an OpenPCI slot For such an installation the full Amiga manual applies The multidisk device can also be used in em2. 1 20 Examples 3 5 drive 300 rpm 80 tracks standard PC drive type 0 doublestep 1 rpm 300 diskchange 1 diskready 0 pll_mode 1 driveletter A precompensation 1 write error diffusion 0 seek time 3 settle time 15 spinup time 50 tick type 0 5 25 drive 360 rpm 80 tracks standard PC HD drive type 1 doublestep 1 rpm 360 diskchange 1 diskready 0 pll_mode 1 driveletter B precompensation 1 write error diffusion 0 seek time 3 settle time 15 spinup time 50 tick type 0 21 5 25 drive 300 rpm 40 tracks standard PC DD drive type 1 doublestep 0 rpm 300 diskchange 0 diskready 0 pll_mode 1 driveletter B precompensation 1 write error diffusion 0 seek time 3 settle time 15 spinup time 50 tick type 0 22 SID related settings Section sid Property sids values 0 no sid installed 1 one sid installed 2 two sids installed MK4 and MK4plus only default automatically detected by the driver this value is only used for reference and or sanity checks Section sidX Property type values 0 old sid 6581 1 new sid default automatically detected by the driver this value is only used for reference and or sanity checks 23 Joystick Mouse Paddles related settings Section joystick Property joyports values number of joystickports default automatically detected by the driver this value is only used for reference and or sanity checks Section joyX Property type values
3. 2 KB_Clock 3 l 3 l 1234 3 KB_Data 050 3 4 GND 4 GND 5 5V Connecting disk drives Two cables and one adapter are included with the controller You might not need all of them The easiest way of installation is to insert the Catweasel between the on board floppy controller and the disk drive s Unplug the floppy cable from the on board controller and connect it to the black connector of the Catweasel MK4plus Now take the cable with the black and the white connector to make a connection between the on board FDC of your computer and the white connector of the Catweasel MK4plus The floppy cable with three connectors is not used in this setup If your PC doesn t have a disk drive connect drives with the included floppy cable three connector cable A connection between the on board FDC and the Catweasel is of course only possible if your board has a floppy controller Should this not be the case or if you just don t want to use the on board controller you can leave the white connector of the Catweasel MK4plus unused To connect a 5 25 drive we have included an adapter The red signal line has been cut on that adapter in order to be compatible with auto eject drives on the same cable This cut has been made intentionally it is not a fault Auto eject drives are 3 5 drives that don t have an eject button You might know them from Apple Macintosh computers Ejecting is initiated by a pulse that s gene
4. a close look at the slot where you insert the disk You should see three switches One for the HD hole of the disk another for the write protect slider and the third is a presence detect switch the disk change switch Only if these three switches are present the drive is a dual mode drive a write protect disk change HD switch A A using 40 Track drives while developing the required features and testing them we noticed that 40 Track drives appear to be a little bit problematic so keep the following hints in mind e most of these drives can not be simply connected to a floppy controller without further configuration usually by setting jumpers There is a lot that can go wrong here and unfortunately it is hard to give general advice on configuration If nothing works there is a high chance that the drives jumper settings are simply wrong play with them If you have documentation try to set the drive to select 1 not select 0 and to put the disk change signal on pin 34 e start with having only the 40 Track drive connected to the Catweasel and make it work first then connect a second drive and do further testing sometimes the 40 track drives confuse the other drive which might again be caused by the wrong jumper settings It is generally desirable to use a 40 track drive for original 40 track disks as the head gap on these drives suits the low capacity of the disks much better than the small head gap of 80
5. am Erase Disk Disk Disk Signal Data 0 25 29 0 0K Drive A 3 5 Unit O v Format EAS a detect Image plain bin adf d64 y e Read Disk will prompt for a filename and then create an image of the disk in the selected drive in the selected image format e verify Disk will compare the content of an image with the disk in the drive e Read Next is ment for mass transfers subsequent numbers will be added to the current filename e Write Disk writes an Image to the disk in the drive The verify checkbox lets you enable default highly recommended or disable automatic verify e Erase Disk will erase the disk in the drive completely by writing a high frequency noise pattern Use this if you have problems writing to disks that have been formatted in a different format than you are trying to write for example when writing C64 images to MSDOS preformatted disks Please notice that this button does NOT format the disk nor create a filesystem To do this simply write an empty disk image to the disk e last not least the abort button will cancel any operation 27 Disk Tab here you can select which Drive to use what Format the Disk is in and what kind of Image Format should be used The detect button will make the Imagetool read a few imi select Format JE Hr Sectors from the Disk in the selected Drive and Montorfano GE 10 640k present you with a sele
6. disk change signal at all or use the disk change line for the ready signal Enable this option if your drive behaves funny for example a no disk in drive is reported as soon as the imagetool wants to start reading Property diskready values 0 ignore diskready signal 1 use diskready signal Proper support for the ready signal will be implemented later needs further investigation and testing 18 Property pill mode values O analog reader pll 1 digital reader pll default 0 analogue Reader PLL This toggles between two different concepts of interpreting the data from the disk analogue Reader PLL tries to model the exact behaviour of actual disk drive hardware while digital Reader PLL takes a more pragmatic digital route Each method has its ups and downs so if you have a certain problematic disk that you can not read using the analogue Reader PLL try the digital Reader PLL Property driveletter values windows drive letter for this drive default none this is only used for reference in the imagetool Property precompensation values 0 off 1 on default 0 off This is a technique which drive manufacturers invented to precompensate certain physical effects that make writing data unreliable on the inner sectors of a disk Enabling this is strongly recommended many disk formats can not be written properly without it Property write error diffusion values 0 off 1 on default 0
7. off Like all digital applications the catweasel introduces small quantization errors when outputting data that doesn t exactly match its sampling rate However this is usually no problem since most if not all floppy controllers use a PLL to sync to the data that is read from disk You can try enabling this option if you have problems reading written disks with your target system Property seek_time default 3 3ms This is the time it takes the drive to step from one track to the next Some modern drives might be able to step faster but more importantly some old drives especially 8 drives might need more time 19 Property settle_time default 15 15ms This is an extra delay to let the drive mechanics settle on the track it has stepped to Property spinup_ time value spinup time in milliseconds divided by 10 default 50 500ms This is the time the drive needs to spin up and reach its nominal speed Increase this value if you often get read errors at the beginning of reading Property tick_type values 0 off 1 Amiga Style clicks default 0 off PC floppy drives need to step one track in order to update their disk inserted status Amiga Users know this behavior from the frequently clicking drive The driver tries to work around this by default but if you experience problems like the imagetool reporting no disk even when there is one inserted into the drive set this option to
8. or the ADF images The Catweasel MK4plus can write Amiga disks in a normal PC However workbench disks are still copyrighted and you can buy them for little money Our reseller Vesalia offers Workbench 3 1 disks for a very good price http www vesalia de d workbench31 htm 35 Developer Information Developers Please look in the devel subdirectory of the latest driver package further information can be found in the header and text files placed there cwhardware_usr h main header file with all lowlevel hardware related defines and information Read and use this if you are planning to write your own driver or software that uses the hardware directly on operating systems that let you do that catweasl_usr h General driver functions cwfloppy usr h Floppy drive related driver functions cwjoystick usr h Joystick port related driver functions cwkeyboard usr h Keyboard related driver functions SID6581 usr h SID related driver functions removed ioctls txt Describes all obsolete functions that are no more present in the current driver Please understand that since both the driver and the imagetool are under constant development the header files will be updated without notice You should always use the most recent ones from the driver package or equivalent if you are using a different programming language than C We also recommend to encapsulate all IOCTLs into a simple wrapper so they can be replaced by a common
9. stack using 100tpi Disk Drives Unfortunately 100tpi Drives are extremely rare and thus hard to get For some hints on the topic look at this document http www retrotechnology com herbs_stuff tandon_commodore_stein txt reading Extended Density Disks To read write extended density formats such as the CMD FD 4000 format you need one of the rare 2 88MB ED drives developed by Toshiba Reading these formats with a regular 1 44MB drive is not possible reading Flip Disks On the C 64 it was common use to flip the disk in order to double it s space This was even possible with disks that have been sold as single sided disks A simple cut in the right place has removed the write protection of the reverse side and the 1541 was able to make use of the flipside Today the diskdrives need one more hole to check if the disk is spinning or not and that is the index hole Back in the 80 s when the C 64 was popular special disks have been sold that have this additional hole red arrow marks that reverse side index hole disk master 535 3500 44 TA Soh Sactonertgy The normal disks the following picture shows the SX 64 test demo disk only have one index hole If you flip the disk the index hole is in the wrong position and the drive cannot tell wether the disk is spinning or not Since there are no index pulses the drive assumes that the disk is not spinning and therefore the data lines to the Catweasel control
10. the 32bit versions of Windows 2000 Windows XP and Windows NT The following instructions apply to Windows 2000 Other versions of Windows might have slightly different messages and buttons Win 9x and Win ME drivers are no longer supported The drivers support the Catweasel MK1 MK3 MK4 and MK4plus Catweasel ISA code is not removed please report if you have a system where you can test this uninstall the old Driver If you still have an old Catweasel driver installed pre 2 4 0 0 you have to remove it manually before installing a newer one The driver directory for Win2000 is lt drive letter gt WINNT system32 drivers The driver directory for Win XP is lt drive letter gt windows system32 drivers For WinXP it will be necessary to switch off some safety measures otherwise you cannot delete the files You might be successful by doing an un install with the software PnP manager but updating the driver with the PnP manager is not possible Delete the following files catwea2k sys base driver catdri2k sys floppy drive driver catkey2k sys Amiga keyboard driver catsid2k sys SID chip driver catjoy2k sys Joystick driver You might not find all of these files in your driver directory depending on the used options of the controller Before installing the new driver make sure to make a hard reset Either push the reset button at the right time experts only or shut down the computer completely and make a fresh power
11. the Catweasel also need drivers that are installed on demand First of all the wizard should find the disk drives that are connected to the controller Please install the drivers the same way as described for the base driver and choose CATDRIVE INF as a driver for the floppy drive Please mind that Windows copies this file to it s own inf directory and will choose that as a source path for the next driver to be installed Don t be surprised if the wizard is using a different path and file than the one you have specified SID chips also need drivers Just follow the wizard as described previously Please mind that the first version of this driver only supports one SID chip It s the one located at the upper edge of the card The next update of the software will also support the second SID socket You will also have to install a driver for that second SID If you want to use an Amiga keyboard you can connect it now The computer doesn t have to be switched off for that plugging the keyboard in and out can be done while the computer is on so called hot plugging Please use the lower keyboard connector for the Amiga keyboard Connecting the keyboard will also automatically open the found new hardware wizard because a device called Amiga keyboard has been found Follow the wizard until it s asking for the file and install the driver CATKEYBD INF for your Amiga keyboard As soon as you have completed installation with the finish
12. track drives using 8 Disk Drives e Does the Catweasel work with Shugart SA851 8 drives I d like to read various CP M formatted disks That requires an 8 floppy adapter There is a compatible one made by dBit check htto www dbit com fdadap html they are also the makers of the Ersatz 11 emulator for PDP 11 machines If you are capable of building an adapter yourself you may want to have a look at the CP M FAQ http www fags org faqs CPM faq Most CP M formats can already be read with the Imagetool but others require special software We re always glad to help with new disk formats but at this point we don t have an 8 setup here so support will be very limited until we have extended our lab equipment to also access 8 disks reading 100tpi Disks e Will the catweasel ever support a way to be able to reliably read old SFD 1001 disks or does it perhaps have a way to do so already that is not in the documentation if so what type of drive do i have to hook up in order to read the 100tpi disks and if a special drive is not needed what type of drive do i choose to be able to read them The Catweasel software already supports reading SFD1001 disks but since the drives had a slightly higher density stepping motor not all tracks can be retrieved with a standard 1 2M drive You truly need a 100tpi drive or loosen the stepper and fiddle around with it while reading the disk might be OK for a single disk but not for a whole
13. 0 none 1 c64 amiga joystick 2 c64 atari paddle requires SID 3 amiga mouse 4 atari mouse 5 C64 mouse 1531 requires SID most mice do not have a proper pullup resistor at their buttons and as a result their right button can not work reliably when a SID is intalled Property emubits values 0x20 paddle emulates mouse requires SID 0x10 paddle emulates joystick n a 0x08 mouse emulates paddle n a 0x04 mouse emulates joystick n a 0x02 joystick emulates paddle n a 0x01 joystick emulates mouse add values to enable several options at once Property autofire 1 values autofire frequency for button 1 0 no autofire default 0 disabled Property autofire2 values autofire frequency for button 2 0 no autofire default 0 disabled 24 Amiga Keyboard related settings Section keyboard Property keymap values name of the keymap currently predefined are keymap old qwerty standard US layout keymap old qwertz standard german layout default qwertz german layout keymap old qwerty n00 41 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 0xc5 0 82 qwertyuiop 222 272 22 n01 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 0 79 80 81 asdfghjkl 22 22 22 22 22 n02 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 43 0 75 76 77 22 zxcvbnm 22 22 22 22 22 n03 86 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 0 83 71 72 73 SPC lt TAB 22 RET ESC 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 22 n04 57 14 15 156 28 1 0xd3 0 0 0 74 00 0xc8 0
14. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 This Tab allows you to preview the data of a given sector in the buffer 29 supported disk formats ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID ID 24 23 16 50 0 19 1 22 10 9 13 14 15 26 30 31 32 41 16 25 33 47 48 6 53 54 55 45 50 27 44 42 43 2 3 34 21 46 49 18 20 17 11 Atari 800 XL SmartDOS DD 190k Atari 800 XL SmartDOS ED 130k Commodore 1541 GCR HP 4145 HD 300rpm 616k Amiga DD 880k Amiga 5 25 DD 880k Amiga HD 1760k Apple 2e Apple Mac 400k Apple Mac 800k Archimedes DD 720k Atari ST DD 11sec 913k Atari ST HD 22sec 1826k Atari Falcon HD 1440k Atari 810 90k BBC Micro 100k Canon AXI 128 16sec 70k Casio Sampler FZ 1 1280k Commodore 1541 51 70 Commodore 1541 51 70 40T Commodore 1571 Commodore 8250 SFD 1001 Commodore 8050 Commodore 1581 CMD FD 1000 CMD FD 2000 CMD FD 4000 HP Logikanalyzer A16500 800k HP 4145 616k MHS Bootdisk 320k Montorfano GE 10 640k NEC PC 9801 CNC HD 1248k NEC PC 9801 CNC DD 720k PC DD MSDOS 720k PC HD MSDOS 1440k PC DD MSDOS 160k PC DD MSDOS 180k PC DD MSDOS 320k PC DD MSDOS 320k 1024byte sec PC DD MSDOS 360k PC DD MSDOS 720k PC HD MSDOS 1200k PC FM 128 16sec 320k bin read and w
15. 7 number of drill diameters 5 hard gold surface connector gold area 438 mm electrical digital single 5V voltage input local generation of 3 3V lO voltage 2 5V core voltage 9V and 12V audio voltages re configurable FPGA design 1728 logic cells up to 119000 system gates dual voltage PCI bridge 8 bit wide local interfacing circuit power consumption lt 2 5W plus SID and HID power 40 Last Words If you have questions or suggestions please use the email form on our website http www icomp de Please make sure that you re specifying a valid email address otherwise we can t answer We usually answer all email requests within 48 hours on regular working days If you don t get an answer please check your spam filter as our answer might have been marked as unwanted eMail so called false positive Credits The Catweasel hardware would be nothing without many programmers and contributors who have helped since 1996 to make it a working product Although it s Jens Schonfeld who has developed all the different versions of the Catweasel hardware the fame for this product belongs to everyone who contributed The names have no special order Achim Dahlhoff Tobias Haustein Tim Mann Tobias Korbmacher Helmut Sch ttner Daniel Frey Thomas Lewandowski Thorsten Schaaps Stephan Kanthak Michael Konig Dr Colin Hirsch Michael Krause John Selck Christian Bauer Martin Kornd rfer Holger Schupp Chris H lsbeck Dierk Ohlerich Je
16. Catwease User Manual a a F a pe a fee HEN wy X i n WANA ANA AA BE last update 05 11 2008 Catweasel MK3 MK4 and MK4plus software update V 2 6 0 0 for the most recent version of this document please check http www icomp de Contents Vey Are sta I EETA CO a VAEA NE E ee hale ST 3 preparing the CA e A ASS RA ad ass 3 AUTO CONTE COE is A oan EEE EEE A caus Ta RA 5 Connecting an AMIA board ic A nate berede AS RE 5 Connecting disk dmesauvavmaes rekene 6 choosing DINE pe Se 6 Fn TAR TNA 7 usine SA 7 reading TOOPI DISSE jeans dd 8 using 100tp1 Disk Drive ai 8 re ding Extended Density Dias RT 8 reading FNP DEks ua stede ite A a E a e 9 Diver Install e ae spd das 14 A pratt atten AE E AE E ade ch SEEE E A E E E A 14 A ON AA AEAEE A A AE E EE AN 14 stan DIV A E E 15 LINUX SE PE EEE EE RENERE reer KR LE eee 16 TUN AN NN Ve det eae aha EE 16 configuring the SOMW Aes ersun e omen West EA ee A A eee 17 General Settings A ASer 17 Floppy Drive related Seti OS gane dais 17 Pomers 21 3 5 drive 300 rpm 80 tracks standard PC drive mmmemerrevrerrrrrrrrrrerrrreerrrrrrrerrerrrreensrernsern 21 5 25 drive 360 rpm 80 tracks standard PC HD drive ssrmrnrvernrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrrrrrnrrrrrrrrrrrseren 21 5 25 drive 300 rpm 40 tracks standard PC DD drive ssmrervernrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrnrrrrnrrrrrrrrrrrseren 22 SID related SEIN GS ulanserte dag hak beist wrest 23 Joystick Mouse Paddles related
17. Controller e Acid 64 http www acid64 com SID player e Arjuna http arjuna sourceforge net Transfer Software e Linux drivers for floppy keyboard joysticks and SID cwfloppy http www soundtracker org raw cwfloppy index html a block device driver cw http www unusedino de cw a floppy driver CatWeasel http llg cubic org cw SID Joystick and Amiga Keyboard driver hardsid http hardsid sourceforge net SID driver hardsid catweasel http www bel fi alankila blog 2005 12 30 HardSID Catweasel 200 01 html another SID driver e Amiga OS 4 native PPC drivers http www os4depot net function showfile amp file driver storage cwfloppy Iha e AROS drivers http www aros org e Mac OS X drivers for floppy joysticks and SID http sourceforge net projects catweasel osx e VICE http www viceteam org Commodore 64 Emulator e Micro64 http micro64 de Commodore 64 Emulator e UAE http www winuae net Amiga Emulator e Goattracker http cadaver homeftp net SID Tracker e cw2dmk http www tim mann org catweasel html Transfer Software Please understand that we are not responsible for proper function of the above software If you experience problems please contact the respective authors first We re always glad to help but please understand that some things go way beyond the scope of our product support If you know of more
18. EP MAOA OAO OOOO OO O O BNO OO OO OO NO al A a mo open 470pF 6581 closed 22000pF 8580 6582 omp di enea JP4 SID 2 Voltage selection closed 12V 6581 open 9V 8580 6582 SID 2 Filter capacitor selection 2 open 470pF 6581 closed 22000pF 8580 6582 2 mn u Jm ir LE nig Floppy Computer nz TO OT g vn fa LE 3 Audio out eae 3 m nn m al i EG mile 3 TE ta 00 Q pe N m bon DORAMA EA zJ E E in _ mn nm mm mm p z monoj annn oann wnan prii 2 Cnn mE z e a E z la Thee il m me Sja M J E E i These jumper settings attach the capacitors to the SIDs that Commodore has recommended The sound is nearly identical to the original computers C64 and C128 It s more common that statistical spreading between SID chips cause sound differences than capacitor tolerances but we have chosen to use low tolerance capacitors anyway Note The parts C39 and R5 are not assembled intentionally Audio connector The output of the SID chips can be routed from the internal audio connector to the line in or the CD audio input of your sound card The internal audio connector on the Catweasel MK4plus follows the de facto standard of CD rom drives so a standard CD rom audio cable should work Unlike the
19. OS FAT but the Windows operating system is stuck with FAT and NTFS with no real way of installing support for other filesystems e get a bluescreen in my Windows when I use the Catweasel Are the drivers faulty We are doing in depth tests with the Catweasel driver before it s released However no software is truly error free so we re open to bug reports Before you report a bug especially a BSOD please make sure that all other software that is installed on your system is working correctly Please note that many security measures of the operating system are not working on the low level where the drivers are running so the Catweasel driver can potentially be disturbed by another driver in the system without Windows being able to detect such a misbehaviour Microsoft has provided a nice little tool for verifying all your system s drivers In essence it fires at all drivers with all kinds of possible and impossible requests that need to be covered by kernelmode drivers Read a little about it here http support microsoft com kb 244617 en us Also note that many drivers even Microsoft signed drivers don t pass this verifyer If you don t use this tool from the very start and hardly anyone does it takes many months to debug an existing driver We went this route so now we re sure that the current driver does not cause a bluescreen any more We re sorry if this looks like a lot of work it is but you need to de install all
20. at we need bug reports without this info can not be processed in any useful way General description of your setup meaning e what operating system do you use including service packs patch level and whatever else you feel could be useful info e what hardware do you use especially motherboard and other extension cards e what other drivers are installed e what catweasel revision are you using and how exactly is it configured are SIDs installed how many drives are connected and which kind and brand did you connect the on board pass through cable are you using an amiga keyboard or mouse with it If you are experiencing crashes aka the blue screen of death Please write down exactly what is printed on the Blue screen even if the Info might seem cryptic and useless it might contain some useful hints on where exactly the problem originates from Please try to explain in every possible detail step by step what you did to make the problem occur Try to replicate it starting with a clean reboot and the least possible amount of different actions It is very important for us to be able to replicate the problem you have If we can t its close to impossible for us to find out how to fix it further things you can do to help usually we can handle these internally install other older releases of the driver and see if the problem remains If you experience problems with the most recent release that do not show in an earlier re
21. ction of disk formats that might PC DD 256 16sec 640k fit Signal Tab Disk Signal Data 0 3 0 0 0K The signal tab shows a statistical analysis a so called histogram of the raw data in a single the current track This allows you to see whether the drive is aligned properly and if the data on the disk is readable within seconds you should see two or three peaks which are located exactly in the middle of the areas marked by the grey lines which is additionally indicated by the data drawn in green Yellow means slightly out of range data probably still readable and red means data that is far off the ideal range and thus probably results in read errors 28 Data Tab Disk Signal Data 0 76 29 0 0K 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
22. does not offer access to foreign filesystems However there are many other options such as emulators and related tools FAT formatted images might be accessable through an image mounter even in Windows http chitchat at infoseek co jp vmware vfd html beta http www winimage com http www acc umu se bosse FileDisk If you are using linux you can mount images like this please refer to the linux documentation on how to enable support for various filesystems mount o loop lt image bin gt lt mountpoint gt e Can use the card in a PCI X or a PCI express slot Please note that PCI X and PCI express are substantially different PCI express is not compatible with the Catweasel MK4plus PCI X is backwards compatible with the standard PCI where the only requirement is that the card shall support 3 3V PCI signalling The Catweasel MK4plus is compatible with the low voltage signalling on the PCI bus so yes it is compatible with PCI X slots 34 e What additional Hardware and Software do need to transfer my Amiga Disks to the PC as adf files You only need a 1 44MB Disk Drive preferably one manufacturerd by TEAC All needed Software is included Creation of a adf images from amiga disks is the job of the imagetool which you can also find in the free update archives for the controller e desperately need a solution to write Amiga disks with my PC or a working Workbench 2 on an Amiga diskette Can you send me disks
23. drivers that may cause problems in your system before we can retrieve reliable information from your setup Take your time for this process make sure to have lots of tea and relaxing music 33 e Does the CatWeasel PCI card work with Windows Vista We have reports from customers that it works if configured for 32 bit mode but since we don t have any Vista machines here to test we can t guarantee it e It is not possible to use the sids unless the floppy drivers are installed latest Acid 64 beta uses FIFO Why That s the cascaded nature of the drivers the Windows PnP system requires one of the functionalities of the controller to be the mother function which results in the sub functions not to be started by Windows if the parent function is not started We have thought about a solution to this a number of times but did not get to a viable solution yet The technically easiest method is to add a 3rd virtual drive at the user s choice but we refrained from doing that as there are other ideas that look a little nicer to the user Anyway all our ideas adding a virtual parent function require substantial re organization of the driver s and this is something that you should not start unless you re prepared for weeks of debugging Please understand that the Catweasel is mainly a floppy controller e How do I access the files within the generated image files Due to the vast amount of different filesystems the catweasel software
24. gs as it seems like the newly installed driver is at fault but in reality an older driver that has been sitting in your system for a long time is the cause Therefore we re kindly asking to make sure that your system runs fine with the driver verifier running and all options enabled This will help you finding the real cause of a possible problem It took us quite a while to find a computer setup with all errorfree drivers that we can develop on but the stability of the system is a very nice return on your efforts so we highly recommend to go this route Those of you who have been complaining about Windows a lot will probably get back the fun of computing even with a Windows system Software and even more driver development for an operating system like Windows is a tedious and errorphrone process that besides other things requires a lot of testing and debugging Please understand that while we are doing our best to make our Software as error free as possible it is impossible for us to test and or debug it on every possible configuration and combination of hard and software This paragraph was written to make it easier for our Customers to report and for us to fix problems that might occur Please understand that reporting it does not work or it crashes my Computer is not helpful at all Keeping some simple rules in mind will save both of us time that can be spent on actual programming rather than further requests 37 Information th
25. idered as an indicator for a DD or an SD disk This indicator cannot be used the other way round The absence of a hub ring is NOT an indicator for HD media as later productions of SD and DD media was not geared to badly produced drives any more 32 Frequently Asked Questions e am trying to read different disks with the Catweasel installed but not configured yields apparently normal action with PC formatted disks However Amiga disks are not recognized and Windows offers to format them This sounds like you re trying to access with the explorer through a drive letter This is not what the Catweasel offers The pass through on the card is only meant for normal PC disk access with the onboard floppy controller but if you want to use the special functions of the Catweasel you will need to run specialized software like the Imagetool The Imagetool is the center of the Catweasel user interface It lets you generate image files of disks that contain all data stored on a disk Such image files can be used in emulators The other direction is also possible If you download an image file from the internet you can write it back to a disk and use it in the original machine File access to foreign formats is NOT what the Catweasel offers This step must be taken with emulators or other specialized data recovery software Real operating systems like Amiga OS and Linux have very good interfaces for using foreign filesystems like MacFS C64 Amiga D
26. ifile is only for reference and or sanity checks Floppy Drive related settings Section floppy Property drives values 0 no drive connected 1 one drive connected 2 two drives connected default automatically detected by the driver Value in the inifile is only for reference and or sanity checks 17 Section driveX Property type values 0 3 5 drive 15 25 drive 2 8 drive default 0 3 5 drive Property doublestep values 0 drive has 40 physical tracks 48tpi 1 drive has 80 physical tracks 96tpi 2 drive has 80 physical tracks 100tpi default 1 80 physical tracks 96tpi this must be set to 0 to read 40 Tracks formats such as C64 disks on 40 Tracks drives Since it is impossible to detect the kind of drive which is connected via hardware make sure to set this correctly when using 40 Tracks drive the drive may go out of alignment or even get permanently damaged when trying to step too far therefore we have not implemented the boot up floppy seek method used by many older BIOSs Property rpm values 300 common for 3 5 pc drives 360 common for 5 25 pc HD drives default 300 RPM most 40 Track 5 25 drives run at 300rpm and not 360rpm like 80 Track 5 25 drives so if you are using one you most probably need to enable this as well Property diskchange values 0 ignore diskchange signal 1 use diskchange signal default 1 most 40 Track drives either do not generate the
27. lease try to find the most recent version that does not show the problem and tell us which version that is If you are using a public beta release of the drivers also test the most recent stable release uninstall all drivers that you don t need to operate your computer and remove all hardware that isn t needed for basic operation and usage of the catweasel We are aware of the fact that not everyone is willing or even able to do this but it could however help to locate conflicts with other hard or software Since this is a rather radical step we will ask you to do it as a last resort when we think it might be helpful In other words don t do it unless asked for or if you are ripping apart your pc regularly anyway install a kernel debugger available at the Microsoft website for free http www microsoft com whdc devtools debugging installx86 mspx locally or if you have a second pc and a null modem cable handy remotely request a debug build of the driver and send us the log file of the debug messages Since this step requires a certain technical understanding and effort on your side and isn t trivially explained unless you are a software developer familiar with these tools don t consider doing it Again if we feel we are unable to fix a problem reported by you without additional info gathered in a debug session we will contact you 38 3rd Party Software We re currently aware of these projects that make use of the Catweasel
28. ler are disabled The problem why you cannot read the reverse sides is not located in the Catweasel controller but in the 5 25 inch drive Some hardware patching is necessary to work around this First of all locate the photo resistor that sees the index hole Cut the two wires that come out of the photo resistor 10 Now bring these two wires to the bottom side of the drive With the example drive a Panasonic Matsushita drive it is necessary to extend the cables a bit grey wires glued to the drive electronics m om YTY Loree META seat pee SWANS pg Ln 11 The next step is a bit tricky and you may need some time until you find the correct position for the magnet and the reed contact Some combinations of magnet and reed work fine on the first try and others need some adjustment until you find the best distance between magnet and reed After glueing the reed to the position you chose it is strongly recommended to check it s function with a multimeter Although you may hear a clicking sound on every rotation the two wires are not electrically connected when the magnet is near This has happened with a number of reed contacts from one batch but it doesn t mean that a different vendor does not provide better quality Since testing only takes a few seconds you should take that time In no case can the magnet harm the health of your disks It s magnetic field is so low and so far away from the su
29. other projects which are not listed here please let us know 39 Technical Data Subject to change without notice Floppy controller part up to two drives at a time shugart standard driver sink current max 80mA per line pass through for standard floppy controller 128KBytes buffer memory variable data rate between 0 1 kBits Sec and 7 Mbits Sec software controllable low level codecs for FM MFM GCR bit stuffing and vendor proprietary codecs Support for soft and hard sectored disks read and write Support for variable speed disk formats in fixed speed drives Audio part up to two SID chips any combination of 6581 6582 or 8580 internal audio connector AMP 4 pin standard raster 2 54mm pinout LGGR External audio connector 3 5mm stereo jack lime green mono jumper SID clock selectable 0 985MHz or 1 023MHz identical for both chips voltage individually selectable 9V or 12V LC filtered DC DC converter for high 9 12V voltage selectable filter capacitors 470pF or 22000pF HID part compatible with Amiga standard keyboards glitch tolerant serial interface up to two digital joysticks following the Atari standard two axis max 3 buttons Quadrature mouse support with hardware counters selectable for Amiga or Atari pinout paddle support with SID chip s installed Printed circuit board 4 layer multilayer board white silkscreen print two black solderstop layers size 138 13 x 93 9 mm number of drills 48
30. previous version of the Catweasel MK4 there is no audio cable included with the Catweasel MK4plus Instead we have added an external audio connector with a 3 5mm stereo jack which is commonly used in PC audio applications Connecting an Amiga Keyboard The external PS2 jack can be used to connect an Amiga 4000 Keyboard e Can connect an A2000 A3000 keyboard to the Catweasel MK4plus Yes this is possible with an off the shelve PS2 adapter for older AT keyboards These adapters are available commercially in PC stores and mailorder shops e Can connect a CDTV keyboard to the Catweasel The CDTV keyboard uses the same connector but a different pinout for the connector You will need to solder an adapter to connect the black CDTV keyboard e Can connect an A1000 keyboard to the Catweasel The A1000 uses a totally different connector a 4 pin WD modular also known as a phone jack or RJ11 connector The protocol of the keyboard is the same as for other keyboards so the A1000 keyboard will also work with the Catweasel MK4plus with an adapter These adapters are not available commercially so you will have to make one yourself if you have the necessary skills and tools Pin A4000 CD32 CDTV KB Data KB Data GND ITXD KB Data GND GND IKB Clock 5V 5V 5V KB_Clock KB_Clock RxD Pin A2000 A3000 Pin A1000 1 KB_Clock sa 1 5V R 2 KB Data HUT 0000
31. rated by the floppy controller The Catweasel MK4plus can only generate this pulse properly if both drives on the cable are either compatible or they have been made compatible by cutting the red signal line choosing a Drive If you have problems writing Amiga disks please check that you re really using DD disks or at least put Scotch tape over the HD hole and of course to use good floppy drives We recommend Teac not Teac OEM for example with integrated flashcard readers but Panasonic Sanyo Matsushita Nec Sony Chinon and most other brands also work fine Currently four drives are known to be incompatible with the Catweasel line of controllers e Mitsumi D359 series Newtronics bad head alignment on new drives interface flaws e Teac drives with integrated flashcard reader obviously no Teac mechanism e Citizen floppy drives as used in Compaq computers interface flaws e Samsung SFD 321B no DD disk support In case you have problems writing DD disks please make sure that your drive is actually DD capable one possibility to identify a non DD capable drive is to look into the slot you should see the switch for the DD hole on the right side The Catweasel MK4plus even lets you write Amiga DD disks with HD only drives like the Samsung SFD 321B You cannot read Amiga disks in such a drive but writing those disks is mostly possible However we suggest to double check if a disk drive is a true dual mode drive by taking
32. red towards the higher data density These disks cannot be turned into DD Disks by just putting Scotch tape over the HD hole because the drive will try to write the data to a non existing magnetic layer with increased head current Even if a verify works at first you will most probably experience errors with such disks as it gets older or when trying to read it with a real DD drive 5 25 inch floppy disks are even more delicate because they cannot be distinguished by their casing Using HD disks for any lower density format such as C64 or Apple will not work because the difference of the magnetic surfaces is even larger than on 3 5 inch disks Sometimes the colour of the surface can give hints on the type of magnetic coating The darker the colour the higher the density However this is not a reliable indicator you should always check any papers that came with the media Hub rings 5 25 inch disks were often sold with an added feature called the hub ring This was only introduced because a large batch of bad disk drives that was available back in the 80s would not turn the disks properly The hub ring must be considered as a workaround for bad disk drives by a certain vendor that did not apply enough pressure to the centre hub Good disk drives do not require the ring The ring often causes new problems if it is not applied exactly to the centre of the disk HD media was never delivered with a hub ring so the presence of a hub ring can be cons
33. remy Moskowitz Tobias Seiler Alan Redhouse Oliver Achten and last not least Vera Henkelmann 41 Fine print The Catweasel line of controllers is not designed authorized or warranted to be suitable for use in life support devices or systems or other critical operations Inclusion of the product in such applications is understood to be fully at the customer s risk Names and other trademarks referred to within this manual are the property of their respective trademark holders None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Individual Computers Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries For updates and further information visit http www icomp de Individual Computers Jens Schonfeld GmbH N D V D U A L Im Zemmer 6 52152 Woffelsbach Germany good hardware for good computers 42
34. rface of the inserted disks that you don t have to fear anything for your disks After you made sure that the two contacts of the reed are connected when the magnet is near and after soldering these two contacts to the two wires that initially came out of the photo resistor your drive can also read the reverse sides of 1541 disks 12 e Why is the hack necessary my drive is double sided Yes your drive is double sided but the positions of the two heads are slightly shifted in a way that the upper head which would read the reverse side starts at track 4 instead of track 1 so you would not have the chance to read the whole disk Another problem is that the head is not exactly at track 4 so only a few disks may be readable We decided not to support reverse sides in double sided drives because it would only cause confusion Disks that work fine on the 64 may cause problems in that mode and you would not have access to all the files Maybe we will publish a tool that displays the directory of the reverse side with an unmodified drive so you can check if it s worth the effort of hacking your drive or not 13 Driver Installation After plugging the card into a free PCI slot you can close the computer again and turn it on The following pages describe installation of the Windows drivers If you re using Linux or an Amiga operating system please consult the corresponding online documentation Windows The drivers currently work for
35. rite read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write Ye x vz read and write readonly readonly readonly read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write ID 12 PC DD 256 16sec 640k bin read and write ID 35 RDOS DD 360k bin read and write ID 28 SAM Coupe Elite DD 800k bin read and write supported image formats plain extensions bin d64 d71 d81 adf xfd This is a plain image of the decoded sectors in side track sector order This is usually the preferred method for data recovery especially when custom tools for extracting filesystems must be written Also many emulators of classic computers support this kind of images and tools to extract files from those images often exist d64 with error information extensions d64 This is an extension of the plain d64 format which has additional er
36. ror information attached to the plain sector data Use this format for reading C64 disks atr extensions atr This type of image is commonly used by emulators of the classic 8 bit Atari Computers request a new format If you have a disk that is not yet supported by the Catweasel we will be happy to implement it in one of the next imagetool updates For adding a new format the best method is to send a sample disk to us And if you can also create or give us pointers to an Image of exactly that Disk Please make sure that the sample disk is fully formatted by the target system and does not contain any data from other computers drives Ideally the disk is new and never used before when you format the disk with your target system In many cases the old computer is not available any more In such cases you will need to send an original disk to us that may contain important data We cannot guarantee that the data can be retrieved and we also cannot guarantee that the disk won t be damaged as parcel services tend to take less care for parcels these days We ll do our best to send the disk s back to you in the same condition as it has reached us If you require the disk s back please write your address both eMail and postal address on the disk itself not just the envelope This will help us keeping disks and documentation together when they pass through the different offices and the lab Also please include as much information as pos
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38. sible about the disk format Name of the machine capacity number of sides and sectors and the operating system of the original machine If you have any documentation please include it with your shipment or give us pointers to the documentation on the net No matter how insignificant the information may be anything can be of help Even schematics of the controller chip markings photos or software rom dumps can be of help to the engineer when approaching a new disk format 31 Any paper documentation should be copies as it would be a waste of time and postage to send this back to you The service of adding a new disk format to the drivers is free of charge We do not guarantee any time frame or the inclusion of a format as the success in analysis of new disk formats is not predictable choosing media Although disks with different densities have been interchanged in the past they do have differences that affect the data safety 3 5 inch disks without the HD hole also have a different magnetic surface that allows storing information in a different layer of the surface Please do not drill a hole into DD disks in order to format them as HD disks because the different magnetic surface cannot store information in the required density Even if a verify works at first you will most probably experience errors with such disks as it gets older 3 5 inch disks with the HD hole have a much thinner magnetic surface than DD disks which is gea
39. ulators that allow access from the emulator to the PCI cards WinUAE has an option for that Again for such an installation the Amiga manual will give valuable answers Please read http siliconsonic de t catman0 html 16 configuring the Software cwconfig ini contains all kinds of settings related to the catweasel controller It will be used by the imagetool for its default configuration however all related settings can still be modified in the imagetool itself and the cwconfig tool This file must reside in the same directory as the imagetool and the cwconfig tool Right now not all of the settings in this file are actually used and some others will always be overridden by whatever the driver detects when it starts up These settings will be used for sanity checks by the cwconfig tool in the future so it s a good idea to fill them out accordingly If you want to apply these settings automatically after bootup put a link to the cwconfig tool into your autostart folder Generally every setting consists of a Section enclosed in square brackets one or more properties and several possible values per property each of which is outlined below Section property value General settings Section controller Property version values 1 catweasel mk1 isa 2 catweasel mk2 amiga not supported 3 catweasel mk3 pci flipper 4 catweasel mk4 pci also for MK4plus default automatically detected by the driver Value in the in
40. up before you start installation This will ensure proper reset of the MK4plus hardware 14 install new Driver Upon starting the computer Windows tells you that it has found a new card of the type Simple communications controller The Found new hardware wizard is automatically launched it will guide you through the installation process Click on next now In the next window choose the option search for a suitable driver for my device and click on next If you re installing the drivers from the supplied CD ROM tag the option CD ROM drives in the next window You should untag the probably pre selected option Microsoft Windows Update because Microsoft does not know the Catweasel MK4plus and therefore doesn t have any drivers for it on their servers If you have downloaded the driver from our website the wizard can t find the driver on a CD ROM You should tag the option specify a location instead and click on next You are now prompted to insert the disc with the drivers Please do so and specify the drive letter In case you have downloaded the driver click on browse in that window and look for the file CATWEASL INF from the MK4 drivers archive Click on next and in the following window on next again to start the installation After the installation end the wizard by clicking on finish You have only finished installing the base driver The different subsystems of
41. wrapper for both the windows and linux driver s in the future 36 known Bugs Problem Windows will no more run it s screensaver nor go into a powersaving mode when the Amiga HID Mouse Driver is active Workaround Disable the corresponding HID devices in the device manager This will not prevent programs written for the catweasel to read the mouse status but only disable the HID device itself so you can no more use the mouse in windows itself Problem Arjuna can not access the catweasel drive Solution Please update to the latest driver and try again Please let us know if you still have problems how to report Bugs As mentioned earlier we are taking all precautions that any driver release is bug free The one tool that finds most of the bugs is Microsoft s driver verifier as mentioned earlier Before you report any bug please make sure that your system works fine without the Catweasel driver installed but with the driver verifier running and all options enabled We have found that the majority of drivers offered with other products even those that are signed by Microsoft do not pass this driver verifier A hardware driver is running on a very low level of the operating system where many safety measures of the OS cannot work As a result a faulty driver can work fine for months but if you add anything to the installation the faulty driver harms proper function of the newly installed driver This leads to misunderstandin
42. xd0 0xcd Oxcb F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 22 22 22 227 n05 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 0xb5 55 0 0xd2 LSFT RSFT LOCK CTRL LALT RALT LAMI RAMI n06 42 54 58 29 56 0xb8 0xdb 0xdc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 n07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 keymap old qwertz n00 41 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 0xc5 0 82 n01 16 17 18 19 20 44 22 23 24 25 26 27 0 79 80 81 n02 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 43 0 75 76 77 n03 86 21 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 0 83 71 72 73 n04 57 14 15 156 28 1 0xd3 0 0 0 74 00 0xc8 0xd0 0xcd Oxcb n05 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 0xb5 55 0 0xd2 n06 42 54 58 29 56 0xb8 0xdb 0xdc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 n07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 using cwconfig cwconfig is a small command line tool to configure various things in the driver and cwconfig ini is its config file which is also used by the imagetool Please have a look at cwconfig ini for the available options The cwconfig tool is meant for the autostart drawer of Windows so certain settings are loaded without having to open the Imagetool The primary use for this tool is to enable the Amiga Mouse HID device for use within windows itself you do not need this tool if you only want to use the Imagetool 26 using the Imagetool After installing the floppy drivers you can use the Imagetool to read and write Disk Images li Imagetool 3 0 Disk Buffer Options Help _ Bead Disk Disk verify Disk E _Read Nest Next Write Disk Disk M
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