Floppy detection probems with 6.2

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Thu Apr 19 02:18:56 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 18 April 2007 00:43, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : I am trying to find out more information about what memory is being used,
> : etc.. Does anyone have a suggestion how I can do this?
>
> Maybe we've come to the point in time that we need to do PIO for
> floppies when we can't allocate enough memory for their DMA at boot.

That'd be a nice fall back but it surely it can't be too hard to reserve some 
memory for stuff like this? 

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