Rana Systems Elite Series User Manual
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL
CP/M ENHANCEMENTS
When hooted, the enhanced CP/M checks all the
controllers in the Apple to determine which are
Elite Controllers and which are Disk ][ control-
lers, starting from slot six and working back-
wards. Whenever an Elite Controller card is
found, the next four CP/M drive letters will be
assigned to the four drives of which the Elite
Controller is capable. If a Disk It controller
is found, then only the next two CP/M drive
letters will be assigned to that card. The
system then moves on to the card in the next
lower slot. This continues until either all
eight drive letters have been assigned to a
controller, or there are no more disk control—
lers in the Apple.
Although the enhanced CP/M will use the drives
on any disk controller in any slot (except slot
zero), you should stick with the CP/M slot as-
signment convention given in the Microsoft CP/M
manuals; and place your controller cards only in
slots six through four.
The Rana CP/M Enhancements Diskette does not
have a copy of the CP/M Operating System and
will not boot CP/M into the computer. However,
certain areas of the diskette are initialized in
a CP/M format, allowing those CP/M programs on
the Enhancer diskette to be run once the system
is hooted from a CP/M master. The Rana Elite
Enhancements Disk will he used to create a new
enhanced CP/M master diskette. The system
tracks from this diskette can then he used to
create any number of additional CP/M system
diskettes that utilize the desired Rana
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