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Page 3: ...ms are used blind data transfers make the drives three times faster and Supra software takes full advantage of every shot at speed including making the most of the Fast File System Advanced Easy to ln...

Page 4: ...d perform many operations without using the keyboard All Supra software is compatible with Workbench 1 3 including the Fast File System FFS and autobooting as well as earlier versions of Commodore Ami...

Page 5: ...r Boards in an Amiga 2000 Optional 16 2 GETTING STARTED 17 Booting 17 Booting From Floppy Disk 17 Autobooting 18 Miscellaneous Booting Information 19 Resetting Your System 19 Parking Your SupraDrive 2...

Page 6: ...nt 32 Double Arrow 33 Modes 33 Batch Mode 33 Rename Mode 36 Display Mode 36 Showpic Mode 36 Tasks that Aren t Mode Specific 37 Formatting Floppy Disks 37 Creating Directories 38 Running Other Programs...

Page 7: ...Number of Partitions and Setting Partition Attributes 48 Starting a Format Map or Zero 52 After a Format Map or Zero 53 Writing Partition Information 53 7 CREATING SPECIALIZED SYSTEMS 55 Bailing Out...

Page 8: ...Software Problems 70 Software that Doesn t Work Properly 70 Problems While Using Hard Disk Backup Rearranger and Optimizer Programs 71 SupraFormat Problems 71 Miscellaneous Problems 72 System Crashes...

Page 9: ...have an autoboot ROM in your Supra SCSI Interface and you don t have a Kickstart 13 or later ROM in your computer you must add a Kickstart 13 ROM to your computer or remove the autoboot ROM from your...

Page 10: ...nd packing materials in case you need to move or ship your drive Before using your SupraDrive please make back up copies of SupraBoot and SupraTools For your convenience neither disk is copy protected...

Page 11: ...NOTE It is very important that nothing is blocking the SupraDrive s vents so it has adequate airflow for internal cooling Connecting a SupraDrive to an Amiga 500 installing Your SupraDrive 9...

Page 12: ...AM boards straining the Amiga 500 s power supply Instructions for mounting these RAM boards are provided with the boards For further information contact your dealer or Supra Corporation Third Party RA...

Page 13: ...explains how to install a hard card Unpacking Your Hard Card The following items should be included in your SupraDrive package hard card hard disk mounted on a Supra SCSI Interface SupraDrive label t...

Page 14: ...Install the Hard Card 1 The hard card can be installed in any one of the Amiga Expansion Slots but if it is placed in any but the one closest to the floppy disk drive it will take up two slots Refer...

Page 15: ...oved from the back of the Amiga Hold the interface over the expansion slot so its metal plate and SCSI port face the back of the Amiga and the interface s gold edge connector points down as shown belo...

Page 16: ...he interface is level 5 Get the screw that formerly held in the Amiga s metal plate Use that screw to connect the interface s metal plate to the Amiga case in the same way the Amiga s metal plate was...

Page 17: ...switching the two wires around To do this turn off the Amiga unplug the hard disk LED wires from the Amiga s LED connector turn over the connector and plug the wires back in again Be sure the hard dis...

Page 18: ...or 68060 accelerator board in your Amiga 2000 you need to use the SupraEdit program to mask out DMA to 32 bit RAM A mask value of 0 will allow things to work safely although not necessarily as fast a...

Page 19: ...ms Booting From Floppy Disk To boot your system from a floppy disk follow these steps in order 1 If you have an external SupraDrive Turn on your SupraDrive and then turn on your Amiga If both are conn...

Page 20: ...can autoboot your system as follows If you have an external SupraDrive Turn on your SupraDrive and then turn on your Amiga If both are connected to a power strip you can turn on both simultaneously by...

Page 21: ...The first boot partition found will be used to boot the system Any other boot partitions will be mounted but not be used for autobooting Resetting Your System Occasionally this manual tells you to re...

Page 22: ...as described in the next section The next time you use the drive the head will automatically be unparked If after running Park you don t wait for confirmation that your drive is parked AmigaDOS may v...

Page 23: ...s files that explain topics such as those listed below which are particularly volatile or beyond the scope of this manual using clocks with your SupraDrive using an Amiga Bridgeboard with an Amiga 200...

Page 24: ...Command Line Interpreter CLI covered in Chapter 5 Using Applications Software Some applications software may not work efficiently and possibly won t work at all with a hard disk Before using applicati...

Page 25: ...to experiment a little to figure out what needs to be done to make the software work The rest of this section describes some situations we know of where simple solutions exist to solve confusing probl...

Page 26: ...to be read and displayed Naturally you can assign dh to any legal drive and path that is convenient for you You may find other software that requires similar modifications Pay particular attention whe...

Page 27: ...sequentially on the hard disk one after the other Then when you delete a file the disk has an empty unused space where the file was Now when you save a new file it may be divided into pieces that are...

Page 28: ...mes with AmigaDOS 1 3 does not cause this problem Installing Supra System Software Every once in a while you may need to install Supra software There are two files that do this Install Sequence and Su...

Page 29: ...he entire contents of the drive that they were supposed to be backing up Saving Preferences If you autoboot your system your preferences are set automatically when you boot and you can skip this secti...

Page 30: ...n the Batch gadget and then click on the Copy gadget The file will be copied to the SupraBoot diskette If you prefer to use CO you can perform the same task by typing the following in CLI with SupraBo...

Page 31: ...d Capabilities CLImate allows you to perform all of the following tasks without using CLI Copy from one disk to another without using the keyboard Easily examine a disk s contents Determine the size o...

Page 32: ...f Workbench contact you local Amiga dealer Starting CLImate To start CLImate double click on the CLImate icon The CLImate title screen will be displayed until you click either mouse button and then yo...

Page 33: ...splay and Showpic The following list shows the operations you can perform in each mode Batch copy move delete and print files and directories Rename rename files and directories Display display the co...

Page 34: ...Destination windows file names are displayed in black type and directory names are displayed in white You can also display the names of files and or subdirectories that are in a directory by moving t...

Page 35: ...g on its gadget on the CLImate screen Batch Mode Batch mode allows operations on multiple files or directories In this mode the left mouse button is used to select or unselect files or directories whi...

Page 36: ...urce window CAUTION The Delete gadget does not work like the Amiga Trashcan When you click on the Delete gadget it permanently erases the selected files and or directories from the source device Patte...

Page 37: ...e box to the right of them The ON OFF boxes simply switch back and forth when you click the left mouse button ON means include the information and OFF means exclude it The boxes with numbers in them c...

Page 38: ...ubdirectories Showplc Mode Showpic mode allows you to display IFF files including those from popular paint programs and digitizers CLImate will only display IFF files and if you try to display a diffe...

Page 39: ...4 floppy disk you must connect your 5 1 4 floppy disk drive so it is the external disk drive that is closest to your Amiga that is so it is dfl If you need to format your hard disk refer to Chapter 6...

Page 40: ...er words you can run other programs and use other Amiga features without exiting CLImate To hide CLImate in the background temporarily move the mouse pointer to the front back gadget the two small hea...

Page 41: ...contact your dealer or consult the books listed in Appendix C The CLI and Shell Icons Supra s software makes both CLI and Shell available automati cally when you boot your system To use either one si...

Page 42: ...ystem as described in the following section or in Chapter 8 Two versions of the start up sequence came with your SupraDrive One is streamlined to be as fast as possible and the other contains extensiv...

Page 43: ...irectory RAM c Utilities System Tools s Prefs Supra and c The system stops searching when it finds the command The Assign and Path commands are described in the AmigaDOS Manual and the Enhancer Softwa...

Page 44: ...torage space so the computer can access it Mapping formatting with the map option turned on checks all the sectors on the hard disk by reading and writing to them individually and noting which are bad...

Page 45: ...be used to accomplish a variety of tasks including most of the tasks listed in the next section An alternative to formatting mapping and zeroing called writing partition information can be used when o...

Page 46: ...0 to be the boot partition 1 boot partition to MOUNT Does not destroy data 1 2 Change the flag of the new boot 1 partition to BOOT 1 3 Write partition information 1 4 Do not format map or zero Cause a...

Page 47: ...its icon which is in the Supra drawer The following screen will appear Brown HMtilKIB g i aPi DRIVE HAME O FLAGS SISE SVS jLft HI REREAD Uorkfienck b r g n hrr r o n n n r 1 B T 1 5 PC 18 1 OLD I5 T...

Page 48: ...ssary Verifying Hard Disk and Controller Types If you choose to verify the hard disk and controller types first use one of the following methods to determine the types used in your system Check the st...

Page 49: ...of these cases change the numbers on the screen so they match the hardware settings of the hard disk you want to format map or zero The SCSI and LUN gadgets show the available SCSI devices and the on...

Page 50: ...we recommend dividing your hard disk into only one or two partitions if any of the following is true You have a 256K Amiga 1000 computer You plan to use an extremely large application program You plan...

Page 51: ...ge return A partition name can be 32 characters long and an ID can be 4 characters long CAUTION Every partition must have both a name and an ID or AmigaDOS will not recognize it If you change an ID be...

Page 52: ...files that allow the drive to autoboot the names of these files are listed in the Docs folder on SupraTools NOTE You must have a BOOT partition even if you re not autobooting Only one partition can b...

Page 53: ...S because it s very reliable and much faster than the original file system and because it allows you to have larger partitions than does the original Amiga file system If you have programs that must u...

Page 54: ...d disk and erase all the data on it This is your last chance to change your mind If you click on FORMAT the format operation will start Mapping To start a map operation a format with the map option on...

Page 55: ...use If you just finished formatting or mapping your drive or zeroing your boot partition you ll see a series of prompts Follow the prompts which may ask you for any of these disks Commodore Amiga s Wo...

Page 56: ...d disk block partition respond yes 5 Next you will see a message that says you may need to reset your system None of your changes will take effect until you reset your system with one exception If all...

Page 57: ...ment The list of possible system setups is endless and the approaches to creating those setups is equally endless This chapter simply describes some of the possibilities Specific examples of setups an...

Page 58: ...that Install Sequence expects sys to be assigned to your boot partition 2 Reset your system When the system boots the contents of sys will be installed on the first boot partition found If no boot par...

Page 59: ...st be in the floppy s root directory c s 1 libs devs and t The Supra directory is optional but recommended The info file must be in the floppy s root directory The harddisk device file and the system...

Page 60: ...m that makes the SupraDrive accessible by the Amiga It mounts any partition that has its SupraFormat partition flag set to BOOT or MOUNT but has not been mounted by the autoboot ROM or the AmigaDOS Mo...

Page 61: ...C You must get the appropriate information for your hardware from the SupraFormat program screen and you might want to get the Supra default parameters from the SupraEdit program screen Then put the...

Page 62: ...bsolutely know what you are doing If you don t know what you are doing any changes you make could have catastrophic results These results may be so bad that your drive will not be able to recover with...

Page 63: ...sign prefix in front of a hexadecimal number but you can for clarity if you choose to If you make changes on the SupraEdit screen and then decide you want to change them you can use the DEFAULT and RE...

Page 64: ...Y which causes the system to use fast memory if available and then if fast memory is not available to use chip memory TRANS MaxTransfer This gadget represents the maximum number of bytes that can be t...

Page 65: ...if the controller cannot keep up with the driver that initiates the blind writes the system will freeze or cause data to be damaged By default the blind writes option is on To turn it on click on the...

Page 66: ...each type of mount list entry it encounters If you have duplicate types of entries in the mount list be sure to delete the entries that you don t want used The section in this chapter called Changing...

Page 67: ...CLI Both CLI and the start up sequence are described in Chapter 5 General Troubleshooting Ideas Before trying any other idea make sure your hard disk is plugged into the interface the interface is se...

Page 68: ...oblem try booting from your back up copy of SupraBoot If you can boot successfully using the back up copy you need to either make a fresh working copy of SupraBoot or you need to fix the problem on yo...

Page 69: ...partitions you probably accidently set two partitions cylinder locations so that they overlap To solve this problem run SupraFormat again and look for your mistake When you find it make the necessary...

Page 70: ...Amiga unplug the hard disk s LED wires from the Amiga s LED connector turn over the connector and plug the wires back in again Be sure the hard disk s LED wires go into the connector holes to which t...

Page 71: ...hen copy the missing files onto the floppy disk you were trying to boot from ERROR Insufficient Free Space Don t confuse this message with the Insufficient Free Store message described in the Miscella...

Page 72: ...but the software still doesn t work correctly with the SupraDrive you need to become a detective The techniques listed below will almost always give you the information you need to solve your problem...

Page 73: ...a hard disk backup program a hard disk rearranger program or a hard disk optimizer program Unfortunately the only solution is to stop using one program or the other SupraForm at Problems If you have...

Page 74: ...The following example CLI command followed by a carriage return CR sets a stack size to 10000 bytes Stock 10000 CR A 10000 byte stack will be adequate for most situations If it s not adequate for your...

Page 75: ...After this happens a couple of times the system will truly unfreeze Go ahead and change the date and time and save them If you can determine which program caused the problem stop using that program R...

Page 76: ...elling you your disk structure is corrupt and you should use DiskDoctor to correct it you may need to use the DiskDoctor program But avoid using DiskDoctor if you can First try to copy all the importa...

Page 77: ...dier box The original SupraDrive packing materials are not adequate to protect your drive during shipping and if you neglect to put your drive in a sturdier box you risk damaging the drive Warranty Su...

Page 78: ...bly causing the interference You may be able to correct the problem by doing one or more of the following Adjust the position of the radio or TV antenna Move the hard disk away from the radio or TV Pl...

Page 79: ...le 1 Supra 1 formats maps and zeroes SupraEdit 1 executable 1 Supra 1 edits low level system info Supralcons 1 executable 1 Supra 1 installs icons Supra Autolnstall 1 executable 1 1 Supra 1 1 installs...

Page 80: ...xplains SupraFormat device IDs and SCSI devices SCSI LUN Possible Partition IDs 0 0 DH0 DH1 DH29 1 0 EH0 EH1 EH29 2 0 FH0 FH1 FH29 3 0 GH0 GH1 GH29 4 0 HH0 HH1 HH29 5 0 IH0 IH1 IH29 6 0 JH0 JH1 JH29 7...

Page 81: ...tting the most from your Amiga They are available from your local computer dealer or bookstore Enhancer Software Featuring AmigaDOS Version 13 manual Commodore Amiga Inc 1988 The AmigaDOS Manual Banta...

Page 82: ...D RAM See RAM Amiga 1000 256K 48 72 clock 21 73 PAL chips 73 Amiga 2000 accelerator board 16 AddBuffers command 26 Bridgeboard See Bridgeboard closing the case 15 hard card 11 internal power cable 13...

Page 83: ...lengthy 68 problems 65 66 70 BootPri 62 Bridgeboard 21 50 buffers 60 62 BufMemType 62 BUFS gadget 62 Busy light LED See LED bytes transferred 60 62 C c directory 41 57 58 77 DeluxeVideo 24 CALCULATE...

Page 84: ...cooling a SupraDrive 9 Copy 28 57 Copy Prefs icon 27 copy protected program disks 19 copying large amounts of data 72 copying files See files custom system See installation instructions and Supra SCSI...

Page 85: ...tems 60 adding 63 Amiga choosing 51 FFS 23 26 51 62 73 original 23 51 62 boot partition 50 choosing 51 MS DOS 51 non Amiga 21 50 58 partition 48 51 selecting 44 specifying 51 UNIX 51 files back up cop...

Page 86: ...miga 500 8 external SupraDrive 7 hard card 11 internal SupraDrive 7 multiple SCSI devices See multiple SCSI devices RAM See RAM Supra SCSI Interface 7 Insufficient Free Space message 69 Insufficient F...

Page 87: ...ctions 7 LUN numbers See LUN numbers SCSI numbers See SCSI numbers N NAME gadget 49 names See files and partitions NO 52 N o message 69 non Amiga file systems See file systems non integrated drive 43...

Page 88: ...e partitions REREAD gadget SupraEdit 61 SupraFormat 46 resetting your system 19 resources 79 Return Materials Authorization RMA 75 rigid disk block partition 54 Rodime 46 root directory 57 Run file 57...

Page 89: ...e 70 SupraAuto DevInit file 26 68 77 SupraAutoInstall file 26 77 SupraBoot 8 11 17 18 26 28 39 40 53 56 66 71 as update 46 SupraDrive See also hard disk icon 56 installation See installation instructi...

Page 90: ...9 disk 26 53 location 50 missing 67 ROMs 50 WRITE EDIT INFO gadget 63 write errors 73 WRITE PARTITION INFO gadget 53 writing partition information 43 53 See also SupraFormat X Xebec 46 XXXgadget 51 Y...

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