| Hummmph... I had to send $5.00 for the new manual and software.
I bought my Supra over 6 months ago, so I guess they felt they don't
owe me anything...
Anyway, I thought I'd mention that CBM's new hard disk system stuff
will be out within a month. According to Supra. I sure hope it's
true.
Ed.
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| Is there any information on the Supra HD for the 2000? Their ads claim
true DMA support, and I saw somewhere that they are promising to
support HD boot when Commadore does. I am interested in how/if they
will support additional external drives beyond the initial internal
one, and of course prices. Is this really available now?
Paul
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| I agree that the service people at Supra are very nice.
My hardrive has been replaced by them 4 times. I still get problems.
Anyhow, they only charged me for the first time. I also got the
new software.
They also sent me a fan for free at the third breakdown. I thought
that would fix my problems, but my drive went wonko even with the
fan.
--Mike
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| Well, a year late and I'm finally going to install
1.3 Kick/Dos software. I wanted to see about gettint the latest
driver software. I've been trying to get
the Supra folks by phone, having been placed on indefinite hold
twice, I wrote them a letter. I wasn't sure what version of software I had,
told them is was 1.x or 2.x, from 1987. The letter they sent back
was "2.x works fine, make sure your PAL chips are grounded if you
have frequent read/write errors" with supporting document/diagram.
Great. Does nothing for me. So a couple of questions for
all you supra gurus out there.
(1) How do you tell what version of the Supra software you're running?
All I can find is a file on the original disk (empty)
labelled "Harddiskutilities-version-1.1".
(2) Do I need later versions to use FFS with AmigaDos 1.3?
(3) Is Supra version 4.3 good enough? Paul Wisner has volunteered
to loan me his 4.3 software.
(4) I have an A-1000, a 30-MEG supra with two partitions.
*Must* I reformat the disk?
(5) If I reformat, do I use the SUPRAFORMAT function, or
the AmigaDOS FORMAT function?
(6) Can somebody summarize the basic few steps to get
the Supra drive to use FFS, etc? Or is it going to be
painfully obvious when I see the 4.3 document that Paul presumably
received with his upgrade? I have read the "Enhancer Software"
update from Commodore, and it wasn't too useful. Looks
like I need to add 3 lines to each Supra device in the mountlist.
But even though my drive has been using two partitions for
two years, I notice mt mountlist has only ONE supra device listed.
Is this never used since MOUNT is not used for the Supra devices?
(7) Does anyone else find the SUPRA folks as AWFUL to get support
out of as I do? Misery wanting company...
Thanks for any help...
Dave
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