On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, 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
Was this your first floppy format or had you done a lot? After doing a lot of disks I got this message, or something similar, about being unable to allocate DMA buffers. The people on the appropriate linux- list tell me it's a design problem in the floppy driver, and that ISA DMA is problematic with > 16mb RAM (which is what it uses). I had to reboot to reset it, did you? Joost's suggestion of a bad disk isn't a bad one either. ;-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
