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SUPERCHARGER NOTES
The ICD host adapter software fully supports the Supercharger PC
emulator. You MUST determine the SCSI ID of your Supercharger.
They are shipped as ID 3. After setting up your hard drive to
auto-boot with HDUTIL, go to the Config option of that program.
Near the bottom of the screen you will see a line that says 'Skip
SCSI ID's:'. Normally only ID 6 is skipped; this is the ICD real
time clock. You MUST also set the ID of your Supercharger here,
then save. This means that all ICD programs will not do any SCSI
commands on this ID. (This means that you need no longer hold
down the Supercharger's reset button when booting the computer
with the Supercharger attached).
You must also disable write caching when running the
Supercharger, otherwise you will never write to your hard disk.
This can be accomplished in several ways. First, you can set up
your booter to disable write caching. Second, you can
permanently enable write caching and turn it off temporarily with
the DESKTOP.ACC or with the CACHEOFF.PRG. There is also a
CACHEON.PRG to turn the caching back on. See below for a more
complete explanation.
If using COLDBOOT.PRG you must also configure it with
CFGCBOOT.PRG to skip the Supercharger's ID.
Please note that the Supercharger is fully compatible with old
ICD Host Adapters. It is NOT compatible with early release
versions of the ICD AdSCSI ST and AdSCSI Plus ST host adapters.
In addition to the software you will need a hardware upgrade kit
which replaces one of the GAL chips on the AdSCSI ST and AdSCSI
Plus ST boards. The cost for this upgrade kit is $15.00.
To check whether your AdSCSI ST has this upgrade, see if a small
circuit board (daughterboard) is plugged into one of the sockets
on the board. If you see this, you have the correct upgrade.
Address: ICD AdSCSI ST Upgrade Offer
1220 Rock St.
Rockford, IL 61101-1437
Note that AdSCSI ST and AdSCSI Plus ST host adapters shipped
from ICD after the date of this file will have hardware upgrades
in place to be compatible with the Supercharger. This may not be
true of units bought from a dealer's existing stock.