Catweasel Z2 or other Z2 IDE Adapter

Hello my fellow AmiBayers

I as have a sadend heart as it turns out my Catweasel Z2 is a dead card, - no life in any of my Zorro Machines and no entry in the early startup to know its alive - I beleive it has suffered CPLD failure/death

Its a shame as it was part of my A2000 build that seems to be lagging a lot behind. So I appeal to my fellow AmiBayers whom might be coinsidering selling a Catweasel Z2 or other IDE Zorro 2 Adapter that supports autobooting - then please consider selling it to me to complete this unique one off A2000 =)

I would also be interested in any of these other following cards/adapters

A-Team 2000
AccessX 2000
Buddha
Buddha Flash


Thanks for reading =)

How about one of these Zeets? (bottom pic)

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showha...cgi?HARDID=523

It appears to be fully populated with ZIPs as well (card and RAM untested - may not work but looks ok). You'd be welcome to try it out first. Maybe if it works you could do me a nice swap for something? ;) I know it's not one of the cards you asked for but it's just in a box here for several years.

I think i have a Catweasel Z-II http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/catweaselz2mk2 tucked away somewhere but i would have to look. If i remember correctly it has never been used.

@Musashi

Interesting my friend, is the card auto bootable? it could be useable in the project if it was my friend.


@demuse

Ahh yes indeed, pending on price this would put my A2000 project back on track =)

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Originally Posted by Zetr0

@Musashi
Interesting my friend, is the card auto bootable? it could be useable in the project if it was my friend.

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I don't know anything more than BBOAH says. I would assume it would be :)

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Originally Posted by Zetr0

@Musashi

Interesting my friend, is the card auto bootable? it could be useable in the project if it was my friend.

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Yes, it's bootable.

I looked at the wrong card first: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/alfapower
but that answered the question much better than the real article: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/atbus2008

"uses the same autoboot ROMs as the BSC AT-Bus 508 / 2008"

:thumbsup:

is there any limmitations to the controller ?


i.e. a maximum Disk size?


(a little excited =))

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Originally Posted by Zetr0

is there any limmitations to the controller ?


i.e. a maximum Disk size?


(a little excited =))

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It's only PIO, not DMA. Not sure about maximum disk size. Amiga Resource has a ZIP file of the ROM for the card, so you might be able to flash an up-to-date ROM, which hopefully addresses things like that. It uses HDInstTools to partition the disk, so I'd guess you stand a chance of putting something worthwhile on there.

Looking at that ROM image, I see the string "oktagon.device 6.10 (26.08.95)" so if it's post-1995, I'd expect it to handle larger disks.

Hope this helps!

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If the board uses Oktagon.device, it surely will accept at least 2GiB HDs and even CD devices. :)

ahh... the adapter needs to be able to hand 20 - 40GB's =(