It's a buggy drive, doesn't support multimode transfers. If your telling
it to do this via hdparm remove the -m1, other wise just ignore it.
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, phobet-channel1 wrote:
> It sounds like your drive is getting ready to die.
>
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> Hello there!
> When I run lilo, i have the following messages
> "partition check
> hdb : set multimode : status=0x51 (Drive ready SeekComplete Error)
> hdb : set multimode : error=0x04 (drive status error)
> hdb1, hdb2
> (the drive is an ST 34321A, 4.6 Gb w/128kb cache, CHS=523/255/62)
> I must say that these things already happened when i was under RH5.1
> Except for that everything goes well and the partitions are correctly
> mounted even the vfat ons...quite strange anybody any idea???
> Thanx
>
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