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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
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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 ]