Re: Commodore drives can be controlled on Apple II serial!

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doug.cotton@cmdweb.com (Doug Cotton) wrote:

>dougkalley@aol.com (DougKalley) wrote:
>
>> Seems feasible. I would say a 1541 is more common than the 1571 (which runs
in
>> 1541 mode also). I think I will have to play around with that, and ask
anyone
>> on cbm-hackers if they have a rom map and the serial codes anywhere. I have
>> been trying to find a fun Ml project lately.
>
>As indicated by someone else, the 1541 is only GCR. The 1571 and 1581 do
>MFM (as well as the CMD FD-2000 -- shameless plug), and all of these latter
>drives run on a 2 MHz processor and support burst serial (which is much
>faster than the stock serial).

O-Goodie!  The FD-2000 is some kind of 1571 clone that's still in production?
If the A2 software drivers for C= drives could be written, these drives could
be practical second drives for A2 users.  The 1571 stored much more data
than the Disk II.  It was a better drive, if having a more funky I/O....