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Rana Systems Elite Series 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:

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:

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:

P a g e 4 — 2 2