Hello everyone!  Does anyone know where I can download a copy utility 
that specifically takes advantage of an MSD SD-2 Dual Floppy Drive?  
Also, are there any 128 Mode programs that work for the MSD drives?

Thanks!!!

Douglas

:)

Douglas Carroll wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can download a copy utility that
> specifically takes advantage of an MSD SD-2 Dual Floppy Drive?
> Also, are there any 128 Mode programs that work for the MSD drives?

I never thought of my MSD-1 drive as particularly fast.  The
MSD manual only claimed that you could hook it up to computers
with Commodore 6 pin and IEEE data ports.  The list of
computers that can be used with MSD drives is remarkably long.
Of course the MSD-2 drive was one of the few dual drive
mechansms for the VIC20, C64 and C128.  The C128 tutorial has
sample BASIC 7.0 commands for a dual 1571 drive, the 1572.
There is a good chance that the same commands will work with
MSD-2 drives.  Purely as a guess, the following command line may
move a file from a disk in drive zero to a disk in drive one:

OPEN 15,8,15, "c1:newname=0:oldname":close15

The above command should work on
C128s, C64s, and possibly even VIC20s.

The sites below can provide the utility disks for a number of
drives.  I am sure that most of the programs will work with an MSD.

http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/demodisks/drives/index.html
http://www.q-link.cc/c64utila.shtml

Hi Douglas,
 Im pretty sure that fast hackem has a msd2 specific copy program but it is 
also possible to buy a rom chip for the msd2 that allows for auto copying. 
With the auto copy roms, you just insert the disks in the drive and it start 
copying. No C= Computer needed. Its pretty cool actually. BTW, I take it you 
got the roms ok? Nice to have those 1571's upgraded isnt it? no more 
flashing lights and waiting for the cursor. Thanks again for your purchase.


Leo

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"Douglas Carroll" <dcarroll14@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
news:dcarroll14-B65771.16563526072005@news1.west.earthlink.net...
> Hello everyone!  Does anyone know where I can download a copy utility
> that specifically takes advantage of an MSD SD-2 Dual Floppy Drive?
> Also, are there any 128 Mode programs that work for the MSD drives?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Douglas
>
> :) 

Many of the MSD user group disks can be found here:

http://cmdrkey.com/cbm/genie/C64-128ToolkitListing.html

I wonder how many in total they released?

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In article <uMDFe.47341$%K2.7645@pd7tw1no>,
Leo <commodore128@removehotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Douglas,
> Im pretty sure that fast hackem has a msd2 specific copy program but it is 
>also possible to buy a rom chip for the msd2 that allows for auto copying. 

  I used the Fast Hack'em copier back in the 80s and it seemed to work
well enough.

>With the auto copy roms, you just insert the disks in the drive and it start 
>copying. No C= Computer needed. Its pretty cool actually.

  Can you still use the drive normally with this ROM installed, or do you
need to arrange some sort of switcher?  In all the years I don't think I
ever heard the answer.

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