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Re: SupraDrive 500XP setup problem
« on: December 31, 2014, 02:48:14 AM »
Quote from: arttu80;780777
Well, after some head scratching and many late nights I still can't figure out why this stubborn Supra thing refuses to see my KingKong sized 40 Mb Conner CP3040 hard drive?!

Setup;

A500, really basic here. Rev 6 mobo, Kick 2.04 / 1.3, 0,5Mb Chipram, 2Mb SupraDrive mounted "fastram"...

Prob;

First of all, the boot time is slooooow, it takes several minutes to boot darn thing, but then only floppy disk is found... After I load Supra setup disk, I can see and use hard drive normally, but after reboot all is the same (no HDD!).  I tried different SCSI ID jumper settings on Conner drive, no luck. I used termination resistors from original Seagate 20Mb drive (Conner had empty sockets). I even tried external cable mounted termination thing with no luck... So, is there "simple" solution to this game or should I throw my cherished 40Mb monstrosity out of the window and go with ACA500? ;) Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Did you buy the latest ROM revision for the SupraDrive XP?  There was someone selling it on this forum a while ago, and on eBay.  Not very expensive and fixes a lot of problems / compatibility.  Do a forum search for the drive name to find those threads.

Last year I set up one of these on a similarly equipped A500 and it worked fine with a 105 MB drive installed (but I had purchased the latest ROM for it some years previously).
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