cwfloppy is a Linux device driver for the Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller manufactured by Individual Computers. The Catweasel is a versatile Shugart bus controller (i.e., it can control floppy drives). It is extremely flexible and can be programmed to read and write just about any floppy disk in the world. This driver supports reading and writing of Amiga and MS-DOS DD/HD 3.5" disks.
| Tags | Hardware |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Changes: The driver has been updated for Linux kernels 2.6.28 and higher, and it also works on AMD64 systems now.


Changes: This release adds support for Linux kernels >= 2.6.20 and properly detects MK4 Catweasels where it failed before.


Changes: Support has been added for the new Catweasel model MK4.


Changes: This is the first release that runs under kernel 2.6. Write support and some other features are still missing.


Changes: This release adds support for the new PCI Catweasel. Error reporting in the "cwformat" program has been fixed.