Re: multiple mode turned off

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From: Peter Verthez
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:00

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Graham Daveney wrote:
> 
> Graham Daveney (daveney@speednet.com.au) wrote:
> : Since I started using a second hard drive whenever the partitions for
> : hda and hdc are loading I see the message "multiple mode turned off".
> :
> :
> : Can anyone enlighten me ?
> :
> :
> : Thanks
> : Graham
> 
> it means that the kernel will not access simultaneously to both drives in
> order to keep with some bad EIDE chips (namely rz1000 and cmd640)
> you may use hdparm to circumvent it, but only if you are sure that your
> bord does not use one of these nasty chips.
> better: upgrade to a 2.0 kernel, which checks automagicaly
> 
> --
> Nat    Linux

Does this mean that with one of these chips you get e.g. 10-second lockups
when you copy from one disk to another ?

I have these symptoms with a PCI-IDE-4 board with UM8673F chip under DOS.
Is there a way to circumvent it in DOS or Windows ?  (In Linux I don't have
any problem with it)

Hope you can help me, because I can't install anything from CDROM anymore
(that is, in a decent fast way).

Peter Verthez
pver@innet.be

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Date: 1996/07/14
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