RANA Systems Elite Controller, User Manual

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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL
INSTALLATION
1. INSTALLATION
1.1. Unpacking
During unpacking, care should be taken to ensure
that all tools are nonmaqnetic and do not in-
flict damage to the unit. Carefully unwrap the
package and save the material which will be
useful in the future for protection during stor-
age or travel.
Before attempting to use an Elite disk drive,
check for a protective shipping diskette inside
the drive. Elite One drives do not require a
protective diskettes, so were may or may not be
one in the drive.
NOTE: Before connecting or disconnecting ANY
e q u i p m e n t TURN OFF A L L COMPUTER AND PERIPHERAL
POWER.
1 . 2 . C o n n e c t i n g D r i v e C a b l e s
A flat ribbon cable is already connected to your
Elite Series or Disk II disk drive(s). The
other end of these cables must be connected to
your disk controller card. For you first drive,
connect the drive to the upper set of pins. Be
sure to orient pin one on the connector with pin
one on the controller- card, Pin one on the
connector is marked with a small arrow, Pin one
on the controller card is numbered.
If this connection is incorrectly made, consid-
erable damage may be done to the electronics of
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