GL>> This got me thinking to another old problem on some machines,
 GL>> it may not be Bill's problem but...  if he has IDE drives it
 GL>> might be a contributor... wasn't it also advised that LBA mode
 GL>> be turned off?  Wasn't that something that could hold off
 GL>> communications interupts? I also notice that you're posting
 GL>> from a new location...
 ml>> not LBA... that would prevent the use of most large drives... i think
 ml>> you are thinking about multiple block mode... that's where the
 ml>> controller will que up several requests to be serviced at once. some
 ml>> early controllers did hold off the interrupts too long with multi block
 ml>> mode turned on...
 GL> Thanks Mark, I'm just not an IDE person, went from MFM to ESDI
 GL> to SCSI myself.
not a problem... i used to run ALL of them in one of my boxes here... MFM, 
RLL, IDE, ESDI, SCSI... it was a very tight fit with port addresses and irqs 
... used it for nothing more than a "disk pool" ;-)
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