Xerox 820-II diskette formats

[Steven Hirsch]

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


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