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 operating 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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