Re: Rana Elite Drives

[waynes@intergate.ca (Wayne Stewart)]

Louis Schulman  wrote

> I recently acquired two Rana Elite One drives.  I also have a Elite
> floppy controller with software.  To my surprise, it appears these items
> do not go together.
> 
> It looks like the Elite drives I have may just be Disk II clones, while
> it may be the controller works with some more advanced drive.
> 
> Can anybody explain the full range of Rana drives, what works with what,
> and what the capabilities of the different drives/systems are?
> 
> Thanks, Louis

It's been so long since I used my Rana equipment that I don't actually 
remember much about it but fortunately I remembered where the manual was.

Elite 1 - 40 tracks, single head - will also read disk II floppies
Elite 2 - 80 tracks, two head - will also read Elite 1 and Disk II floppies
Elite 3 - 160 tracks, two head - will read Elite 1 & 2 or disk II floppies


There was a utility disk which would modify DOS 3.3 or CP/M to recognize the 
various drives. I likely have that but exactly where it is I haven't a clue


The controller will opperate all three drives as well as the Disk II drives.
It's supposed to automatically use either 13 or 16 sector formatting.

I only have the Elite 1 drives which work fine with my controller, Disk IIs 
work fine too. You might try reseating all the chips, there's been a lot of 
years for the chip legs to oxidize

	Wayne