Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: SupraMount and FFS (or mount for that matter) Message-ID: <12024@cup.portal.com> Date: 2 Dec 88 11:41:52 GMT References: <1773@scolex> <11729@cup.portal.com> <6721@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 35 manes@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Mark Manes) writes: "Tell me, do you use FastMemFirst? We *HAVE* version 5.1a. It does not work on our 2000. We have a 30 meg drive, with FastMemFirst, version 5.1a dies a horrible death." The beginning of my 1.3 startup-sequence is: c:SetPatch ; >NIL: ;patch system functions c:SupraMount c:addmem 600000 9fffff ; Ronin 32-bit-wide RAM All my systems are A1000s with either 68010 or 68020/68881, from 6.5MB to 8.5MB RAM (4MB 32 bit wide on the Hurricane-equipped systems), and from 320MB to 1.5GB HD connected using the Supra 4x4 SCSI Host Adapter with *BOTH* 2.4 and 5.1a SW (several systems are still running 1.2 since it's a pain to reformat that much HD to get FFS). HOWEVER: in this area (Silicon Valley) there ARE people using the Supra card for the A2000 with no problems based on their comments to several local (again, Silicon Valley) BBS systems. Your Supra card and/or copy of the software may be "bad"; have you attempted to contact Clark Stevens or Mark White at Supra? It would probably NOT be wise to contact CMI directly since they did the Supra stuff under contract. There are several HD drivers for the Supra that YOU must optionally select; one of them is ONLY for the A2000. And one can also option the Supramount program itself with a "-s" to do blind reads for more speed. The docs from Supra are clear; the only people having (stated their) problems in this area are those who DIDN'T read the docs and who later red-facedly admitted that the problems went away after they followed the instructions. Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]