Xebec Hard Sector Floppy Drives

Greetings, I am attempting to cobble together a system and non-system device driver for OS/8 to allow me to use my new OS/8 DiskServer utility with my -8/M and its Xebec floppy drives. I have quite a bit of documentation on these drives (that will eventually get pushed to bitsavers, if I find more time) but unfortunately, I'm lacking in software. Lack of handlers is okay. The instruction manual gives some programming examples, which is enough to get me started. But it also cites a test program which is supposed to be run to initialize any new disk. Test 1: Format Sectors Function: To format a new disk or prepare a disk for a series of diagnostic tests. There is no prerequisite for Test 1 which is normally the first test to be run int he diagnostic sequence. Test Procedure: