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SubjectRe: Conflict between AT1500 and floppy?
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> I've been using an Allied Telesis AT-1500 ethernet card for a couple of
> weeks, and today used the floppy drive for the first time since installing
> the network card. Whenever both the network and floppy are active at the
> same time, I get errors like this:
>
> Any ideas?

Looks like your DMA controller doesnt cope to well with mixed ISA bus
masters and host DMA going on. Quite a few crap boards don't like this. Boot
with floppy=nodma for a slightly slower floppy setup and more floppy cpu
use but sane machine hopefully.

Alan

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