RANA Systems Elite Controller, User Manual

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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL OPERATION
2. OPERATING
If the only Elite product you currently have is
the Elite Controller, then this section probably
won’t be off must interest to you. Since the
Elite Controller has no switches (13/16 sector
booting is automatic) and we haven’t, supplied
you with a slot in the card in which you could
insert a diskette, there is nothing’ which you
could “operate”.
If you are a programmer who is interested in how
to manipulate the controller card software—wise,
such secrets are revealed later in this manual.
2 . 1 . E l i t e D r i v e s ’ W r i t e - P r o t e c t S w i t c h
Operating the Elite drives is identical to oper-
ating a Disk—II drive, except that the Elite
drives have an extra write-protect switch which
may require a little explaining.
Mounted on the upper front panel of an Elite
drive is a touch-switch. By momentarily
pressing the stripes labeled PROTECT, the write—
protect status of the drive can be toggled
on/off. The drive’s write protect status is
reflected by a small light next to the PROTECT
switch.
The switch does not affect the write-protect
status of a diskette which has been protected by
covering the diskette’s notch. Diskettes which
are protected in this way are always considered
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