Re: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
Ray,
> The PC architecture cannot do DMA above 16MB. It's just not possible.
> Since the PC was designed to run in less than 640KB, no one ever expected
> it to be a problem. You have over 90MB of RAM, so now it's a problem for
> you.
Thank you very much for your message. It was very descriptive.
> 4. Use the 'swapout' program (from ftape) which tries to force the kernel
> to swap out a contiguous chunk of RAM below 16MB.
I'm installing it right now. Let's see what happens.
It looks like it does work. Thanks.
> 5. Use an Alpha or SPARC.
Would you give it to me? ;)
> 6. Pull out some SIMMS and only install 16MB of RAM.
And what do I do with Netscape, The Gimp and Staroffice 4.0? ;)
> 7. Go back in time and shoot the PC engineers.
If I had the oportunity, I should would have.
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