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From: billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Supra HD
Message-ID: <1306@agora.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 19:40:10 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <35@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU:, by cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz):
:   I recently reformatted to 5.1 using the scsidisk.device, supramount -s
: option; only one leetle drawback- it sucks up about 250K for
: buffers.  I called Supra about that (and the fact that you aren't
: allowed to use the standard mount command), and they stated a new
: version would be out "next month".  Is 5.3 that "new version"?  Does
: it still leave around a "Supramount" task (use Status to check it
: out)? Does it still eat memory like there's no tomorrow? Can you
: mount your drive with Mount?

	You must be using a 2000 if you can't use the Mount command to
manually mount your partitions. I have no troubles mounting any or all
may partitions with the 1000. You will have to go into SupraFormat and
change your drive to have no partitions at all if you ever want to run
the SupraMount command. The memory being used that you are complaining
about is real simple to get rid of... Use the old file system. The buffers
are quite a bit larger with FFS, and that's what eats the memory. It's
supposedly a feature of FFS, *Not* SupraMount.
	If you have a 2000, you'll still need to run SupraMount to get
the DMA stuff initialised, then you should be able to manually mount a
partition and access it. I use this to hack my drive parameters in the 
partition blocks at the start of the drive.

:   Merry New Year,
: 
: 
:   John Schultz
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