Does JiffyDOS make third-party drives GEOS-compatible?

[+OLD CS1]

JiffyDOS-enabled Commodore disk drives (1541, 1571) will boot GEOS with no problems. Many third-party drives, like the MSD and Enhancer 2000, will not boot GEOS. But, does JiffyDOS allow these drives to boot GEOS?

[+sm3]

That's a good question. I personally don't use GEOS, but I know the original disks were copy protected to only work on the 1541/1571. The copy protection has been defeated if I'm not mistaken, so maybe one of those disks would work on those 3rd party drives.

[+remowilliams]

For the Enhancer 2000 at least, I'd think not. What a crap drive, I actually threw one of them out

[+OLD CS1]

For the Enhancer 2000 at least, I'd think not. What a crap drive, I actually threw one of them out

 

Shame. When we ran BBSs we absolutely LOVED the Enhancer 2000. I have two, a tan and a white one. These are far faster than the 1541 for most activities, but in particular dealing with RELative files (user, message, and file databases especially.) We changed out a 1541 for an Enhancer 2000 on a Color 64 BBS and logins were near instantaneous.

 

Yeah, I have seen plenty of bootable GEOS copies out there, so I suspect one of those might work. I can tell you the copy I made with Kracker Jax would not boot on the Enhancer. Fortunately Gunship boots just fine, and Epyx FastLoad and Access Warp Speed all work perfectly.

[+remowilliams]

Yes for specific file level use I could see there being an advantage. As a gamer the thing just drove me nuts even compared with the regular 1541 type of issues.