Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Meskes <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.31-pre9 -- floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory | Date | Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:46:29 +0200 (CEST) |
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You wrote:
> ... > # superformat /dev/fd0 > Formatting cylinder 62, head 0 format: Out of memory > ...
I believe the DMA memory needed for floppy access has to be in the first 32MB of memory. I've had this problem frequently until I put the floppy driver into the kernel (not a module anymore) and mount the floppy during reboot. Since then it works. But I have my floppy mounted most of the time, so I guess the DMA memory isn't released while it is mounted. During my short umount, remount read/write, copy tripwire database to floppy, umount, mount read only cycles I had no problem so far.
> ... > superformat /dev/fd0 > open: No such device or address > ...
If you call superformat without additional options it inherits the floppy options from the device. If it is not initialized you're in trouble.
Michael
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