Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?
Douglas Bates <bates@cs.wisc.edu> 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?
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