Rana Systems Elite Series - Manual (Page 250)

ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL ENHANCED CP/M UTIL.
backup an Elite Two diskette? First glance at
the tables might indicate that such a conflict
occurs, but not really. In such a case you
would simply specify a single drive copy to the
COPY utility by specify both the source and
target drives as being your Elite Two. A dual—
drive copy can still be performed if you are
backing up a Disk II diskette, since the Elite
Two will work as both the source and target for
a Disk II copy, provided as Disk II defined
drive is involved in the copy somehow.
An important note to remember is that COPY does
not know exactly which drive models you have
placed in various positions, all it knows is
what you have specified to the currently booted
CP/M operating system (using PROFILE). There-
fore, if you have an Elite Two as drive B:, but
you‘ve told the currently booted CP/M that drive
B: is a Disk II, then you must treat the drive
like a Disk II when you look at the copy tables
listed earlier.
A studied analysis of the tables will reveal,
with the exception of the Elite Three, that the
lower capacity drive of the two specified for
the copy will always declare what type of copy
is to be performed. This is regardless of
whether or not the lower capacity drive is the
source or the target.
In addition, COPY will not FORMAT the target
diskette prior to starting the copy. The target
diskette must already have been pre—formatted
using the FORMAT utility. The diskette must be
formatted in the same format as listed for the
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