On Sat, 14 May 2005, Steven Hartland wrote:

> Thanks for the confirmation there Doug at least I have a workaround :)

As another workaround, add this to loader.conf and reboot:

vm.old_contigmalloc="1"

This uses the old contigmalloc algorithm which may be more successful as
allocating the bounce buffer area.

>
>     Steve
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > This is a known bug; floppy drives don't work on amd64 since the ISA DMA
> > buffer gets allocated above 16MB.  I don't know if this is something that
> > needs to be handled by busdma.
>
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