2 May
2009
2 May
'09
11:22 a.m.
On 5/1/09 5:45 PM, "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
All,
Thanks to the kindness of Richard Lynch, I now have the 8" drive cabinet
to go with my newly-repaired Xerox 820-II. The drive mechanisms were
non-functional, unfortunately, so I need to scrounge together something
from my junk, err parts collection.
I cannot find anything definitive regarding compatibility. I thought
these machines could use DSDD drives (one site mentioned Shugart SA851s),
but that would be 1.2M of capacity and everything I've found on the web
indicates perhaps 1/2 of that.
Can anyone tell me what will work with the unit and what low-level format
it writes?
Steve
Both of the non-functional drives that were removed from the cabinet were
851s, and a large percentage of the 820-II floppies that I'm in the process
of archiving are DSDD.
Richard