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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Rana Elite ///
Message-ID: <2933@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 89 21:18:13 GMT
References: <8908191421.AA13488@trout.nosc.mil>
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <8908191421.AA13488@trout.nosc.mil> rich@pro-exchange.cts.com (Rich Sims) writes:
>Comment to message from: peterd@pro-graphics.cts.com (Peter Dachnowicz)

>> Years ago I purchased a RANA ELITE /// drive that had the capability of quad
>> density for my ][.  I was wondering if there are any drivers out there that
>> would allow it to support prodos or for that matter Gs/Os.

>The drive needed a new PROM (set of PROM's??) in order to support ProDOS.  It

I have one (on our old II+).  We got it right before they took a deep dive
into bankruptcy.  We got ours with the 4 disk controller card (a nifty little
card althought getting 4 disks hooked to it I would think would be a major
pain, cable snafu city).  This card was necessary (so I read) to use ProDOS.

>took RANA quite a while to make them available, but they finally did, and at a
>pretty reasonable cost.  How you'd get a set now, I have no idea.  I ordered
>the upgrade for a customer when they were announced, and he did tell me that
>they worked "as advertised".

The only problem I ever had with the card was that it couldn't boot certain
copy protected stuff, and I didn't feel like having two cards to control both
drives (it's messy enough as it is with other boards).

I did read in A+ (rip) several years ago, a letter from a guy who said he had
written a driver to get ProDOS to work on these drives.  If anybody happens to
have their collection of A+ lying around, you can look in the Letters section.
I'd do it, but all my A+'s are back home while I visit college.

-kareth.