RANA Systems Elite Controller, User Manual

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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL CP/M ENHANCEMENTS
drive type for the drive being used as drive B:.
FOR MAT cannot always catch that the drive was
unable to handle the type of format you request-
ed. The disk will appear to be correctly for-
matted but will cause a CP/M Disk I/O error or
BDOS error at some later stage, or your new CP/M
may not boot.
Once you’ve specified the formatting informa-
tion, type:
<RETURN>
FORMAT will respond with:
Insert disk to be formatted in drive B:
Press RETURN to begin
Insert that second blank diskette which was
mentioned earlier into drive B:, then type:
<RETURN>
FORMAT will respond with:
Formatting...
The drive will chatter and spin for almost a
minute, (or two if formatting an Elite Two or
Three diskette), then the screen will display:
FORMAT Complete
Format disk in which drive?
To end the FORMAT utility, press:
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