ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL | CP/M ENHANCEMENTS |
When hooted, the enhanced CP/M checks all the controllers in the Apple to determine which are Elite Controllers and which are Disk ][ control- lers, starting from slot six and working back- wards. Whenever an Elite Controller card is found, the next four CP/M drive letters will be assigned to the four drives of which the Elite Controller is capable. If a Disk It controller is found, then only the next two CP/M drive letters will be assigned to that card. The system then moves on to the card in the next lower slot. This continues until either all eight drive letters have been assigned to a controller, or there are no more disk control— lers in the Apple.
Although the enhanced CP/M will use the drives on any disk controller in any slot (except slot zero), you should stick with the CP/M slot assignment convention given in the Microsoft CP/M manuals; and place your controller cards only in slots six through four.
The Rana CP/M Enhancements Diskette does not have a copy of the CP/M Operating System and will not boot CP/M into the computer. However, certain areas of the diskette are initialized in a CP/M format, allowing those CP/M programs on the Enhancer diskette to be run once the system is hooted from a CP/M master. The Rana Elite Enhancements Disk will he used to create a new enhanced CP/M master diskette. The system tracks from this diskette can then he used to create any number of additional CP/M system diskettes that utilize the desired Rana fea-
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