Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Conflict between AT1500 and floppy? | Date | Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:35:06 +0100 (BST) |
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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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