RANA Systems Elite Controller, 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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