[ILUG] CRC Errors and UDMA Drives

[Trevor Johnston]

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, John P. Looney wrote:
> It's not DMA. Recompile a 2.2.13 kernel with "Set multimode on by
> default" or something like that. Could be a 2.3 kernel option. Can
> anyone with access to a 2.3.x kernel confirm it ? In the help thing
> for that option, it goes on about "if you see errors like..x..set this
> option".
Okay - but can I get the Redhat installer to use my kernel for the
installation? I can compile the kernel on my own machine first, but would
of course need to be able to do this.

> Come to think of it, you can set multimode to be on, with hdparm too.
> Try that, see do the errors go away.
Maybe I'll give that a go first.

What exactly is multimode?

Thanks,
Trevor Johnston