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RanaSystems
EliteSeries
User Manual
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL PREFACE This manual is copyrighted. All rights are reserved. This document may not, in whole or in part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced, trans- lated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable form without prior consent, in writing, from Rana Systems. Copyright 1982 by RANA Systems 26620 South Leapwood Carson, California 90746 (213)538—2353 Kieth S. Burgoyne, Editor Elite One, Elite Two, Elite Three, Elite Controller, and Elite Enhancements are al
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL PREFACE HARDWARE WARRANTY Rana Systems warrants to the original user of an Elite Series Product, including any associated software, that the product shall he free of defects resulting from faulty manufacture .of the product or its components for a period .of ninety (90) days from the date of sale. Rana Systems makes no warranties regarding the satisfactory performance, mer— chantability, or fitness for any particular purpose, of the product o
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL PREFACE ADDITIONAL WARRANTY INFORMATION Rana Systems makes no warranties, either express or implied, with respect to this manual or with respect to the software described in this manual, its quality, performance, merchant- ability, or fitness for any particular purpose. Rana Systems software is supplied “as is”. The entire risk as to its quality and performance is with the buyer. Should the programs or utili- ties prove defective following
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL PREFACE SERVICE INFORMATION If your Elite Series product requires repair, please return it to the dealer from whom it was purchased. If it is not possible to return the product to your dealer, you may contact Rana Systems directly for factory or regional service information. You are responsible for all shipping or postage charges incurred upon shipment to Rana Systems or any designated Rana Systems service center. Rana Systems or our design
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL PREFACE warranty period expires, it will be repaired for a flat fee. Inquiries regarding repair charges on products being returned to Rana Systems or one of our service centers for service should be made directly to Rana Systems. Neither Rana Systems nor our service, centers assume responsibility for any loss or damage incurred during transit to or from the factory or service center, claims, arising from such loss or damage shoul
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INSTALLATION.......................... 1 1.1. Unpacking........................... 1 1.2. Connecting Drive Cables............. 1 1.3. Installing Your Controller Card..... 2 2. OPERATING.............................. 1 2.1. Elite Drives Write—Protect Switch... 1 2.2. Recommended Diskettes............... 2 3. ENHANCING APPLE‘S APPLLE II DOS 3.3...... 1 4. ENHANCING MICROSOFT APPLE ][ CP/M 2.2.... 1 4.1.
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL CONTENTS 7.1.3. Drive Mechanism................ 3 7.1.4. Head Positioning Mechanisms.... 4 7.1.5. Read/Write Head................ 5 7.2. Elite Controller...................... 7 7.2.1. Introduction................... 7 7.2.2. Booting........................ 8 7.2.3. Hardware....................... 9 7.2.4. EPROM Logic.................... 9 7.2.5. State Machine.................. 11 7.2.6. Addressahle Latch.............. 1
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL CONTENTS 10.5. SGLDRIVE Utility................ 34 10.6. ENHANCE Utility................. 38 11. SECTION ll........................... 1 A. DISKETTE DATA RECORDING............ 3 A.1. Introduction...................... 3 A.2. Tracks and Sectors................ 3 A.3. Track Formatting.................. 9 A.4. Fields............................17 A.5. Gaps..............................
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES 1—1: Elite Controller Cable Connections.... 4 1—2: Disk-II Controller Cable Connections.. 5 6-1: Elite One Characteristics............. 2 6-2: Elite One Characteristics (cont.)..... 3 6-3: Elite Two Characteristics............. 4 6-4: Elite Two Characteristics (cont.)..... 5 6-5: Elite Three Characteristics........... 6 6-6: Elite Three Characteristics (cont.)... 7 6-7: Elite Cont
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL CONTENTS A-16: 5-plus-3 Conversion Table............ 35 A-17: Data encoding........................ 37 A-18: Data Decoding........................ 38 A-19: 6—plus—2 Encoding.................... 39 A-20: 6—plus—2 Conversion Table............ 40 A-21: Standard System Interleaves.......... 43
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL INTRODUCTION 0.0 INTRODUCTION Congratulations! Now that you have bought one of the totally new elite Series products, you have done more for your Apple than Apple could do. If you are an Elite Controller card user, you’ll find it is designed specifically to solve one of the major problems sophisticated Apple II users have these days: too many cards, not enough slots. The Elite Controller’s ability to handle four drives from just
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL INTRODUCTION Products less expensive to run in the comparisions which count: price per kilobyte of drive storage and expandability per controller card purchased. We are proud off the Elite Series, and we know you will be too. Ta achieve the best results and the most enjoy- ment from your new Elite Product, we suggest you read this manual carefully. We have tried to avoid including too
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL INSTALLATION 1. INSTALLATION 1.1. Unpacking During unpacking, care should be taken to ensure that all tools are nonmaqnetic and do not in- flict damage to the unit. Carefully unwrap the package and save the material which will be useful in the future for protection during stor- age or travel. Before attempting to use an Elite disk drive, check for a protective shipping diskette inside the drive. Elite One drives do not require a protective diskettes, so were ma
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL INSTALLATION both the drive and the controller. Be sure to make the connection BEFORE installing the controller card into the Apple motherboard. If you are installing a second disk drive, you should connect: the ribbon cable from the second drive onto the next set. of pins down on the controller card marked “DRIVE 2”, taking the same precautions as above. If you are connecting and third (and fourth) drive to an Elite Controller, they would
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL INSTALLATION you controller in that slot. 3. Insert the gold covered “fingers” into the slot and GENTLY rock the controller card into a firmly seated position. 4. Adjust your ribbon cables so they pass easily out through the back of the computer through the vertical openings in the rear of the case. 5. If you wish to install a second controller card, the same procedure outlined above would be used; except the “standard” slot n
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL INSTALLATION Fig. 1-1: Elite Cont roller Cable Connections Page 1-4
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL INSTALLATION Fig. 1-2: Disk Il Cont roller Cable Connections Page 1—5
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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
