Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-26 Thread Douglas Bates
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from > > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but > > I get errors from superformat saying it c

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but > I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when > there is a lot of memor

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread joost witteveen
> > I wrote too soon. The problem did recur. > bash-2.01$ superformat -v 1 -d /dev/fd0 && fdmount && cp -a /var/tmp/fd0/* > /fd0 && fdumount && sync > .format: Cannot allocate memory > The errors reported to /var/adm/messages look like > floppy0: data CRC error:

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from > > > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but > > > I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Douglas Bates
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from > > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but > > I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from > the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but > I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when > there is a lot of memory available. > bash-2.01

superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread Douglas Bates
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when there is a lot of memory available. bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0 Formatting cylinder