Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:16:00 -0500 (CDT) | From | Jeff Haumont <> | Subject | Re: .94 Floppies and Ethernet |
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> > Apr 23 12:50:42 vorlon kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, > > status 88f2.
> Your ISA bus is sufficiently occupied the network card is dropping > packets when the ISA bus DMA to floppy driver is running. Its not a > problem directly. www.uk.linux.org does the same when both the tape > drive and AHA1542 SCSI are running.
> Alan
I have went back to the .90 kernel and tried my same test (ie dd if=floppy of=/dev/fd0) and no errors came up in syslog. What has changed that could possibly cause this sort of thing? lance.c had not changed, but floppy.c has. I don't know too much about the internals of the kernel, and I would hate to do a bunch of work for nothing. Do you have any suggestions for starting points or other ideas? (It seems a little odd that floppy.c alone could cause bus errors)
Thanks, Jeff Haumont
(BTW I read this list from news.fuller.edu and neither of these replies have shown up there yet. Either it is real slow, or there is a problem. Basically, don't count on me seeing anything that isn't mailed directly to me.)
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