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From: sutela@tucos.UUCP (Kari Sutela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Mount vs. SupraMount (Oh no, not again...)
Keywords: Mounting, Supra, HD
Message-ID: <850@tucos.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 89 08:37:57 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
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Well, I know this has been discussed quite recently, but at the time I wasn't
paying too much attention. However, for some reason I ended up buying a 30 meg
Supra HD for my A500 [well, other manufacturers' HD:s for the A500 just aren't
available in Finland].

I want to know if anyone has succeeded in Mounting (and Formatting) this drive
with non-Supra software (this possibility is mentioned in some readme-file, but
no required technical information is given, though). I have tried a couple of
times but have been unsuccessful so far.

One might ask, why I'd want to do it. Actually, the salesman at the store where
I bought my drive from did just that - and could not give any information :-(
First, I just like to know things. Second, SupraMount seems to be leaving
a CLI-process hanging around, which I can't get rid of by Breaking. Has anyone
else noticed this 'feature' - I suspect that SupraMount spawns a new CLI-
process to Mount the additional partitions after DH0:?

BTW, SupraFormat shows that my drives are formatted with an interleave of 3.
I think (based on Supra's ads) that one can use 0 interleaving with the 30-meg
Supra drives/conrollers. Am I right? Can I damage things if I use too small
interleaving? I doubt that I can cause any physical harm, BUT will it cause
unreliability and/or soft errors?

So, if some-one has succeeded in this, I'd be grateful to receive the 
information needed in building my mountlist. An example of your own mount-
list would be really nice. Please, email preferred.

Thanks in advance,

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Kari Sutela	sutela@tucos.cs.utu.fi 	  OR	lk-kari@fintuvm.utu.fi
						lk-kari@fintuvm.bitnet