Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?
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
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