> I am experiencing serious problems with the 2.2.0-pre8 kernel. I keep
> getting
> the kernel message
>
> DMA memory shortage. Temporarily falling back on virtual DMA
>
> when accessing my floppy drives. As you can see below, I use DMA for my
> hard
> disks. I have a sound card but I did not use it at the time of the error
> (at
> least not first). Though, it appears to me that I am getting these
> errors
> faster when I use the sound card.
>
> The floppy driver was not configured as a module at first. I recompiled
> it as
> module and rebooted, but the problem didn't vanish. At least I am able
> to
> restart the floppy driver in case of an error now.
>
> I used mtools-3.9.1 and fdutils-5.2 to produce and work on XDF disks.
> xdfcopy
> from fdutils gives me this:
>
> error during command execution
> c5 01 00 00 81 02 00 1b ff
> 41 04 00 00 00 8c 02
> No Data - unreadable
> read/write: Paramètre invalide.
>
> I have never had such problems before and have been using almost every
> single
> kernel version out of the last 50 or so.
>
I tried other kernels too, and even 2.0.36 has the same problem. I wonder
how that is possible. I have not used XDF disks so far but I have used
other big formats and have never experienced troubles. The 2.0.36 kernel
was compiled without sound support and without BM-DMA.
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