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From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Supra HD
Message-ID: <2041@scolex>
Date: 9 Jan 89 18:10:06 GMT
References: <42@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU: <1323@agora.UUCP>
Reply-To: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <1323@agora.UUCP> billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) writes:
>From article <42@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU:, by cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz):
>
>:   Why?  I can mount with Mount or Supramount interchangeably.  The
>: partition information for Supramount gets written to the hard disk
>: [first couple of tracks], Mount never sees it, as it gets partition
>: info from mountlist.
>
>	I haven't tried it on the 1000, but on the 2000 if I try that I
>get the partition mounted twice. What I was trying to say was that you
>wouldn't be able to use both SupraMount and Mount in the same session.

I have found that on my ami 1000, I cannot use the Mount command
without the possability of having the system hang at some point
in time.   The situation I use to duplicate this (and I have
talked to Supra) is to have 2 partitions.  On the first partition
have about 5 Meg of files etc (WB Extras, Lattice Compiler, UUCP)
and then do the follwing command:

copy dh0: dh1: all

I have never had this succeed all the way through yet.  It hangs
after about 2/3 of the files have been transfered.

This machine has the following for those who are interested:

Ami 1000
Supra 30 Meg 4x4
Microbotics Starboard 2 (512K RAM for total of 1 Meg)

Not much I kow :-)  The problem goes away when I use SupraMount.
I am using Fast-FileSystem and the scsidisk.device (quick :-)
The normal filesystem and harddisk.device show the same problem.
The Pals on my machine have been grounded.

If I had lots more memory, this might not be a problem, as
I wouldn't go to the hard disk so often (compiles etc..)
to create the circumstances necessary.

Just FYI.  I like the Supra Drive, I just think they have
a timing problem or resource allocation problem going on
that SupraMount somehow fixes.

brian moffet
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