Amiga Supradrive hard drive questions

[melott]

I would guess the Supra is simular to the
RocHard I had on my A500.

Yes, you plug it directly onto the bus on the side
of the A500. I would also use the power supply
you got with it. The A500 bus is marginal on
powering devices on the bus.
Also, thats probably not a serial port on the
back, its more likely a SCSI port.
You would have to open the drive case up to
determin if the drive inside is IDE or SCSI.
They came both ways (I think). If the drive is
IDE then the port is probably dead, if its a SCSI
drive then the port should be active.
To get it to boot from the drive you'll probably
have to get an install disk to mount it. Whoever
had the drive before probably wiped the drive
clean, meaning its not installed anymore.
You can probably download the install disk at
Amiga-Hardware.com.

Mel Ott

[melott]

If you have OS 2.xx or above on the machine then
you should have 'Cross Dos'. That allows the A500
to read PC disks ( 720k Pc disks if you don't have
a HD 1.76 drive in the A500). Or you could do a
NULL modem transfer.

As for the switches on the back of the drive...
I'm sure its like my RocHard drive, the Dip Switches
need to be set correctly or it won't work.
Amiga-Hardware probably has that info or maybe
you can find someone who has a manual and
copy it for you .
The other switch is probably a 3 position switch.
That would be the game switch. It should turn on
the drive and ram depending on what position
the switch is in. A little trial & error will tell you
what each position does.

Mel Ott

[melott]

You may want to upgrade your whole OS.
I've seen OS3.1 very cheap on EBay.
You will need the 3.1 roms, in my opinion I'd say
its worth the few bucks.
Actually, I know someone who has a set of 3.1
roms he will probably sell. He just bought my
A500 which already had the roms in it so he has the
extra set. I have no idea what he would ask for them
but you could ask. I'm not trying to make a sale here,
just offering you a convience.

Mel Ott