2 May
2009
2 May
'09
1:37 p.m.
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Richard Lynch wrote:
> 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?
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.
Interesting. So the maximum capacity was approx. 1.2MB on those
diskettes?
I found an SA851 in my collection that I believe works and am working on
getting another.
One thing I should have asked: Can you tell me the jumper settings on the
units you pulled?
Steve
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