Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
I had done a lot. I was making about 50 copies of a floppy disk for a class. > 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? I rebooted and could write on the same floppy disk without a problem. About 10 disks later I encountered the same problem again. It looks like the driver is at fault. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
