diff --git a/tinygrad/schedule/multi.py b/tinygrad/schedule/multi.py
index b9a41c3f77..5539967eb2 100644
--- a/tinygrad/schedule/multi.py
+++ b/tinygrad/schedule/multi.py
@@ -94,12 +94,7 @@ def mstack_early_shrink(ms:UOp, shrink:UOp):
     return s.shrink(tuple(new_arg))
   for i, x in enumerate(ms.src):
     if x.op is Ops.COPY:
-      # if src device doesn't have a renderer, we have to view after the copy
-      # TODO: a way to understand this
-      if x.src[0].device in {"DISK", "NPY"}:
-        ret.append(apply_shrink(x, i))
-      else:
-        ret.append(apply_shrink(x.src[0], i).copy_to_device(x.device))
+      ret.append(apply_shrink(x.src[0], i).copy_to_device(x.device))
     else:
       ret.append(apply_shrink(x, i).contiguous())
   return ms.replace(src=tuple(ret))