Rana Systems Elite Series User Manual

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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL

ENHANCED CP/M UTIL.

was actually an Elite Two (which can seek fast)

which is to be restricted to acting like an

Elite One.

The second change is to make drive A: act like a

Disk II, but seek at the “fast” rate (,A:0F).

Once again, this would have to he an Elite Two

pretending to be a Disk II. This would be a

common temporary setting since it allows the

Elite Two to read a lower capacity Disk II

diskette, and restricts any writes the drive

makes to the diskette to be perfectly

interchangeable with a Disk II drive.

The last change is to make drive D: act like a

Disk II but seek at the “medium” seek rate

(,D:0M). This also would be a common temporary

setting since it obviously infers restricting an

Elite One to acting just like a Disk II to

insure that any diskette about to be up-

dated/created by the drive will interchange with

a Disk II drive.

Although possible, no changes to the setting for

drive A: should ever be made to the in-memory

system. All changes take effect immediately,

and since the diskette which was hooted in drive

A: would be of a “pre-change” format, the system

will “crash” when PROFILE is terminated and the

system is no longer able to read its own system

diskette.

Likewise, changes to settings for drive A: in

on-disk copies of CP/M have a direct effect on

the “bootability” of the diskettes. When the

copy of the operating system was placed onto the

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