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From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Supra E-mail address needed
Message-ID: <10596@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 7 Jul 89 13:26:44 GMT
References: <890625214233.20e04599@SIC.Epfl.CH> <2744@bucsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Organization: UofW Computer Graphics Lab
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In article <2744@bucsb.UUCP> bear@bucsb.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>In article <890625214233.20e04599@SIC.Epfl.CH> pirelli@elma.epfl.ch writes:
>>A friend of mine has a '1000 and a Supra HD. He'd like to know if he can
>>autoboot off of it.
>
>Supra does not have autobooting for the 1000 planned.  There are
>two possible solutions.  1) You could install a 1.3 Kickstart Eliminator
>and leave your bootbench disk in df0: or, 2) You can buy a 2000 expansion
>gizmo and buy a 2000 SCSI card w/ autobooting.  I'm currently using 1)
>because I don't want to shell out the money for an expander when I
>fully intend to buy a 2500.

Ok, how about 3) buy an autobooting controller for the 1000.

I have a Supra controller and was using 1) quite happily.  Since then,
I have discovered that my Supra barfs when I put in my LUCAS board.
So, I bought a Comspec SA1000 controller.

Not only does this baby autoboot workbench, it autoboots kickstart!

When you format your drive, you can select it as autobooting and it will
reserve space for kickstart on your harddrive.  It will then copy 
kickstart into it ... from ram, not from the floppy.  

There is a switch on the controller, which selects/deselects autobooting.
With a striped down workbench ( I don't load all the junk I used to,
since I'm low on memory right now ), it 20 seconds to boot completely
from power up, including loading kickstart!

Needless to say, I'm a happy camper!

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