Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!pasteur!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!baron!baron!pnet07!donm
From: donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: 5.25" drives for 820-II?
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.182503.16717@simasd.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 91 18:25:03 GMT
Sender: pnet@simasd.uucp (People-NET)
Organization: People-Net [pnet07], San Diego, CA
Lines: 23

bqsy1@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Andrew R. Orndorff, Cornell University) writes:
>  [...]    But, I'd like to know what one has to do to change from
>8" drives to 5.25" drives on the Xerox 820-II? Could it be as simple as
>just rewiring the cables for the correct pinouts on the 5.25" drives? 

Yup, it's that simple.

>	Or is it a lot more, ie. software changes so that the computer will
>correctly access the 5.25" drives?

Nope, the software will recognize either.

>	And finally, barring any of the above, does anyone have a pair of
>5.25" drives for an 820-II that they might consider selling, cheaply?

Any old pair of 5.25" 360K double sided drives will do it nicely, but you
might contact Mike Sprague, sprague.wbst311@xerox.com, and see if he has
anything.


Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com