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Supra Amax Driver v1.30 6/10/91
The Supra Amax driver will allow Amax 2.6 or higher to work with your
Supra hard drive. To do this you will need to dedicate one of your
partitions to Amax. If you only have 1 partition, you will need to
backup your hard drive and reformat it for more than one partition, or
use a MAC hard drive.
IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
THIS VERSION WILL ONLY WORK WITH AMAX V2.06 OR GREATER.
Supra supported hardware:
A2000 Word Sync interface - supported
A500 Byte Sync/XP interface - supported
A500 non-Byte Sync interface - supported
A1000 interface - supported
A2000 DMA interface - will not be supported (you can upgrade
to a WS interface, please contact Supra Technical support for assistance)
Supra supported software:
Series II v1.10 and greater - supported
Series II v1.09F and less - not supported
non-series II software - not supported
You can upgrade to the newer software by sending in your disk and a check
for $15. You will need to reformat your HD with the new software when you
receive it. Please send your disk and check to:
Supra Corporation
ATTN: Amiga software update
1133 Commercial Way
Albany, OR 97321
If you have received this disk and your hardware is not supported, please
contact Supra Technical support for assistance.
You can contact Supra Technical support via:
503-967-9081 9-4 pst
503-926-9370 fax
76004,565 CompuServe
SupraTech GEnie
INSTALLATION:
1. Copy the file SUPRADIRECT.AMHD to the DEVS folder of your
boot device.
2. Run SUPRAFORMAT.
3. Decide which partition will be dedicated to Amax. Set the
ID to AMAX. Set the FLAGS to SKIP.
4. Click on the WRITE PARTITION INFO button. When it asks if
you want to write SELECT or ALL, click on SELECT button.
Click on the DON'T WRITE button until the partition AMAX
appears. Click on the WRITE button. Continue clicking on
the DON'T WRITE button for any other partitions. When it asks
if you want to write the rigid disk bock, click on the WRITE
button.
5. Exit SUPRAFORMAT
6. Run SUPRAEDIT
7. Click on the MAKE MOUNT LIST button.
8. Click on the EXIT button
9. Run MEMACS (or your favorite text editor)
10. Load the file SYS:DEVS/MOUNTLIST
11. Page to the end of the file
12. Insert the file SYS:DEVS/MOUNTLIST.SUPRA_x (x is the
SCSI number of your HD)
13. Delete the new entries, except the AMAX entry.
14. Check that the 2nd line of the AMAX entry is:
Device = supradirect.device
15. If it is not, you are using pre-Series IIv1.10 software.
You will need to use a latter version of Supra's software.
16. Write out the new MOUNTLIST
18. Before running Amax, do a MOUNT AMAX:
19. Run Amax
EXTERNAL MAC HDs 6/10/91
This version of the Supra Amax driver should work with all external
MAC HDs. However, since Amax uses the MAC HD driver to control the
SCSI command sequences, there may be some MAC HD drivers that will
not work.
If you are do not have a Amax partition you will have to create a "fake"
mountlist entry for the MAC drive. The Amax Documention explains how
to do this process. Be sure that the following line appears in the
"fake" mountlist entry for your MAC drive:
Device = Supradirect.device
You will still have to mount the amax partition to allow Amax to work
with your MAC drive.
In addition most MAC HD drivers transfer data using many short data
requests, instead of using a single large request. This causes
the HD to run much slower than an Amax partition of an Amiga HD.
SPECIAL NOTE: 6/10/91
When using a SyQuest drive that is formated under a MAC, once the
system(AMAX) has came up, you will have to use a MAC hard drive
utility to mount the drive.
PROBLEMS
1. Check that you have copied SUPRADIRECT.AMHD to the
DEVS: folder
2. Make sure that you have properly created the mountlist
3. Check that you are using Amax v2.06 or greater
4. Make sure that you are using the proper version of Supra's
software and that you are not mixing versions