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SubjectRe: 2.0.31-pre9 -- floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
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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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