Re: Conflict between AT1500 and floppy?
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:35:06 +0100 (BST)
> I've been using an Allied Telesis AT-1500 ethernet card for a couple of
> weeks, and today used the floppy drive for the first time since installing
> the network card. Whenever both the network and floppy are active at the
> same time, I get errors like this:
>
> Any ideas?
Looks like your DMA controller doesnt cope to well with mixed ISA bus
masters and host DMA going on. Quite a few crap boards don't like this. Boot
with floppy=nodma for a slightly slower floppy setup and more floppy cpu
use but sane machine hopefully.
Alan