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From: carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga NFS
Message-ID: <411@io.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 17:05:03 EST
Article-I.D.: io.411
Posted: Mon Oct 26 17:05:03 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 02:04:36 EST
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Reply-To: carlos@zapp.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA
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In article <3178@ccicpg.UUCP> harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne) writes:
> With that in mind, I wonder which will be faster, the rumored
>1.3 ehancement that require mount or bindrivers command (kiss the supra off,
>unless they start conforming to spec's)
>UUCP: uunet!ccicpg!harald

The Supra hard disks, contrary to rumor and misinformation, DO in fact auto-
configure and conform to standards. If the disk is not partitioned, there is
no need to use the 'supramount' command, the 'mount' command will work fine.

All 'supramount' does is put together partitioning information from 
devs:supra.0 with the data in mountlist to do the mount. This lets the user
use the nice partitioning/formatting program provided to set up partitions
without having to set up entries in the mountlist manually. 

I had the same concern as Mr. Milne regarding the new filesystem. The folks
at Supra told me that there is no problem, and they are already beta testing
the new FS. They also told me that if one desired to they could take the
information from supra.0 and use it to build separate entries in the mountlist
for each partition, thus allowing the use of the 'mount' command with multiple
partitions. I looked at supra.0, and sure enough, all the required data was
there. So I left well enough alone, until the new filesystem shows up
anyway.

I have no relation to Supra other than as a happy customer. 

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			Carlos Smith
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