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

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

>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).

If a driver can be written, the CMD FD-2000 will doubtless be the high
density disk drive for the Apple II.  It will be THE standard drive, taking
into account the rareness and expense of the SuperDrive controller and
SuperDrive and the BlueDisk.

>Also, as someone indicated, the Commodore serial port wasn't RS-232.
>Implementing this on a dedicated RS-232 port wouldn't be feasible, but it
>could be done if the RS-232 port were done with a general I/O chip
>controlled purely by software. 

I think the GS has a general purpose Zilog communications chip. If that
is not sufficient, can an SCSI port be adapted to the implementation?