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SubjectRe: Ftape
(Just joined this thread so I may be off track.)

I had DMA problems with ftape starting with kernel 2.0.0. The solution
was to upgrade to ftape-2.10 (or newer?) and run the program called
swapout that came with ftape before loading the ftape module manually
or by kerneld.

It appears dmaalloc() must have sufficient non-fragment memory in order to
succeed. Swapout helps by defragmenting memory by allocating a five Meg
chunk and then freeing it.

On 26 Jan 1997, Mark Turner wrote:

> Gary White <gary@netpathway.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anybody else have this problem?
>
> I have the same problem (except that my kerel was previously built for
> a 386), similar motherboard, same tape drive, same tape controller,
> also using DMA support, same error message.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.


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