2.1.7: DMA crossing 64-K boundary

Steffen Zahn (zahn@berlin.snafu.de)
Fri, 1 Nov 1996 23:40:25 +0100


Hello,

I found the messages below in my syslogs. While this happend I formatted
one floppy and used tar to read and write a large file from/to floppies.
This was unfortunately not repeatable. floppy is compiled into kernel.
No other side effects.

Nov 1 23:04:14 zahn linux: DMA crossing 64-K boundary c08af000-c08b3800
Nov 1 23:04:14 zahn linux: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1224
Nov 1 23:04:14 zahn linux: DMA crossing 64-K boundary c08af400-c08b3800
Nov 1 23:04:14 zahn linux: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1226
Nov 1 23:04:14 zahn linux: DMA crossing 64-K boundary c08af800-c08b3800
Nov 1 23:04:14 zahn linux: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1228
Nov 1 23:04:15 zahn linux: DMA crossing 64-K boundary c08afc00-c08b3800
Nov 1 23:04:15 zahn linux: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1230

Regards
Steffen

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