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From: jvmiller@plato.rdrc.rpi.edu (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Supra E-mail address needed
Summary: Supra and autobooting on a A1000
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Date: 6 Jul 89 19:44:46 GMT
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I recently called Supra to find out attaching a second drive to the
back of my current 20meg for my amiga 1000.  During the discussion I
found out that they sell a second drive (30 meg) for the low, low 
price of $699.  After much pestering, I got out of them I could any
external hard disk made for the Mac.  Apparently the SCSI connector
on the back of my drive fits the standard that Mac developed for a
DB-25 SCSI port.

Also during the discussion I found out that they have new software
that will increase transfer rates.  I am currently using 4.3 and now
their on Series II (or something like that).

Since I was having so much success squeezing information out of them
I asked about autobooting on the A1000.  They said that they have a couple
methods that they are researching and developing.  The word is that it
will a couple o months before they release anything.  I got the feeling
that it was going to require some hardware adaptations to either
the controller board and/or the Amiga 1000 itself.

Personally I am just looking forward to faster transfer rates and
more storage space.


Jimmy