Supra Amax Driver  v1.30  6/10/91

The Supra Amax driver will allow Amax 2.6 or higher to work with your 
Supra hard drive.  To do this you will need to dedicate one of your 
partitions to Amax.  If you only have 1 partition, you will need to 
backup your hard drive and reformat it for more than one partition, or 
use a MAC hard drive.

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        THIS VERSION WILL ONLY WORK WITH AMAX V2.06 OR GREATER.   

Supra supported hardware:

	A2000 Word Sync interface - supported
	A500 Byte Sync/XP interface - supported
	A500 non-Byte Sync interface - supported
	A1000 interface - supported
	A2000 DMA interface - will not be supported (you can upgrade 
to a WS interface, please contact Supra Technical support for assistance)

Supra supported software:
	Series II v1.10 and greater - supported
	Series II v1.09F and less - not supported
	non-series II software - not supported      

You can upgrade to the newer software by sending in your disk and a check 
for $15.  You will need to reformat your HD with the new software when you 
receive it.  Please send your disk and check to:

	Supra Corporation
	ATTN: Amiga software update
	1133 Commercial Way
	Albany, OR  97321

If you have received this disk and your hardware is not supported, please
contact Supra Technical support for assistance.

You can contact Supra Technical support via:
503-967-9081  9-4 pst
503-926-9370  fax
76004,565  CompuServe
SupraTech  GEnie

INSTALLATION:
	1.  Copy the file  SUPRADIRECT.AMHD to the DEVS folder of your 
	    boot device.
	2.  Run SUPRAFORMAT.
	3.  Decide which partition will be dedicated to Amax.  Set the 
	    ID to AMAX.  Set the FLAGS to SKIP.  
	4.  Click on the WRITE PARTITION INFO button.  When it asks if 
	    you want to write SELECT or ALL, click on SELECT button.  
	    Click on the DON'T WRITE button until the partition AMAX 
	    appears.  Click on the WRITE button.  Continue clicking on 
	    the DON'T WRITE button for any other partitions.  When it asks 
	    if you want to write the rigid disk bock, click on the WRITE 
	    button.
	5.  Exit SUPRAFORMAT
	6.  Run SUPRAEDIT
	7.  Click on the MAKE MOUNT LIST button.
	8.  Click on the EXIT button
	9.  Run MEMACS (or your favorite text editor)
	10.  Load the file SYS:DEVS/MOUNTLIST
	11.  Page to the end of the file
	12.  Insert the file SYS:DEVS/MOUNTLIST.SUPRA_x   (x is the 
	     SCSI number of your HD)
	13.  Delete the new entries, except the AMAX entry.
	14.  Check that the 2nd line of the AMAX entry is:
		Device = supradirect.device
	15.  If it is not, you are using pre-Series IIv1.10 software.  
 
You will need to use a latter version of Supra's software.
	16.  Write out the new MOUNTLIST
	18.  Before running Amax, do a MOUNT AMAX:
	19.  Run Amax


EXTERNAL MAC HDs     6/10/91

This version of the Supra Amax driver should work with all external
MAC HDs.  However, since Amax uses the MAC HD driver to control the 
SCSI command sequences, there may be some MAC HD drivers that will 
not work. 

If you are do not have a Amax partition you will have to create a "fake"
mountlist entry for the MAC drive.  The Amax Documention explains how
to do this process.  Be sure that the following line appears in the 
"fake" mountlist entry for your MAC drive:

	Device = Supradirect.device

You will still have to mount the amax partition to allow Amax to work
with your MAC drive.

In addition most MAC HD drivers transfer data using many short data
requests, instead of using a single large request.  This causes
the HD to run much slower than an Amax partition of an Amiga HD.

SPECIAL NOTE:	6/10/91

When using a SyQuest drive that is formated under a MAC, once the 
system(AMAX) has came up, you will have	to use a MAC hard drive 
utility to mount the drive.

PROBLEMS
	1.  Check that you have copied SUPRADIRECT.AMHD to the
            DEVS: folder
	2.  Make sure that you have properly created the mountlist
	3.  Check that you are using Amax v2.06 or greater
	4.  Make sure that you are using the proper version of Supra's
	    software and that you are not mixing versions