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Re: can't access /dev/fd0



Mario Olimpio de Menezes <mario@curiango.ipen.br> writes:

> floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
> 
> 	With little knowledge about this problem, I did an rmmod in some
> modules not being used at the moment and got the floppy accessible again.
> 	Today the problem was back, and there isn't modules to rmmod now!
> 	What can be done to solve it?
> 	Shouldn't the kernel be smart enough to preserve some memory
> to DMA (I guess my IDE can't address memory above 16Mb)?
> 	I'm using almost stable (bo) version:
> 
> kernel 2.0.30, with ip_masq, three 3Com590 NIC cards, 32Mb RAM, Adaptec
> 1542 (ISA), 2.1GB SCSI HD, 1.44Mb 3.5in floppy, Atapi IDE CDROM. 

2.0.30 has some ugly problems with memory. Upgrade to 2.0.33.

Ciao,
	Martin


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