Xerox 820-II diskette formats

[Richard Lynch]

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