tom@felix.UUCP (03/13/87)
Greetings, I just purchased an Atari 800 with a Rana 1000 disk drive. They have been unused and are in perfect condition (circa June, 1983). The Rana manual says they the drive only supports single density with it's firmware, but double density supporting firmware is coming. Did it? It appears that Rana Systems is no longer in Chatsworth, Calif. Does anyone know where they are or how I can get a copy of the firmware? I assume the DOS 2.? I have doesn't support double density anyway. What's the latest OS and where is a good place to get it? Or am I a few years late? Thanks, -- Tom Lockwood hplabs!felix!tom "We are upping our standards, ...so up yours". Pat Paulsen for President, 1988.
leavens@atari.UUCP (Alex Leavens) (03/17/87)
in article <2418@felix.UUCP>, tom@felix.UUCP (Tom Lockwood) says: > > The Rana manual says they the drive only supports single density with > it's firmware, but double density supporting firmware is coming. Did it? > It appears that Rana Systems is no longer in Chatsworth, Calif. > Does anyone know where they are or how I can get a copy of the firmware? > I assume the DOS 2.? I have doesn't support double density anyway. > What's the latest OS and where is a good place to get it? > Or am I a few years late? > I don't know if Rana ever came out with their firmware upgrade. Our Rana drive proved to be more trouble than it was worth, and we dumped it. I think Rana is now out of business. --alex @ Atari BIX:alexl. GEnie: ALEXLEAVENS AtariCorp: 408-745-2006 "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all."
jeepcj2a@fluke.UUCP (03/24/87)
I bought my Rana in Aug of 1983 and it supports double density 180Kbytes. I use OSS DOSXL and it works fine. The original Xerox manual which came with the drive said nothing about double density. Two months later a printed manual explaining double density operation came in the mail.