Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from > > > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but > > > I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when > > > there is a lot of memory available. > > > bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0 > > > Formatting cylinder 0, head 0 format: Cannot allocate memory > > > bash-2.01$ cat /proc/meminfo > > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > > > Mem: 130924544 126173184 4751360 24453120 55037952 37212160 > > > Swap: 106921984 20480 106901504 > > > MemTotal: 127856 kB > > > MemFree: 4640 kB > > > MemShared: 23880 kB > > > Buffers: 53748 kB > > > Cached: 36340 kB > > > SwapTotal: 104416 kB > > > SwapFree: 104396 kB > > > > > > Am I misinterpreting that error message? > > > > > > I have the 5.2pl4-2 fdutils package installed, a 2.0.33 kernel, and > > > libc6 version 2.0.6-3 on a hamm system. > > > > > > Other programs don't seem to have problems with memory allocation.
> It seems to have been a transitory problem with the floppy device > /dev/fd0. Other programs began to encounter problems with it so I > rebooted. This problem has not recurred. I wrote too soon. The problem did recur. bash-2.01$ superformat -v 1 -d /dev/fd0 && fdmount && cp -a /var/tmp/fd0/* /fd0 && fdumount && sync .............................format: Cannot allocate memory The errors reported to /var/adm/messages look like floppy0: data CRC error: track 52, head 1, sector 16, size 2 floppy0: data CRC error: track 52, head 1, sector 16, size 2 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1905 Any suggestions what might be going on? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
