> I did a motherboard swap recently. Since then, I've been getting this
> kernel error on a random basis. It comes, and goes. The new motherboard
> is an ATC-5000 Intel 430TX motherboard. I've got a lone 3.5" floppy.
>
> The end result is that the floppy mount fails. Other than that, nothing
> else appears to be amiss. If I try a few minutes later, I can usually
> mount the floppy. I'm running kernel 2.0.30 with Donald Becker's driver
> for the 3c900 Boomerang card (thanks Donald), and 64MB of EDO RAM.
Your hw config is not important. This is rather generic problem (read
"broken by design") with linux. Hopefully mm will be improved to at
least workaround this.
If you *really* need that floppy, I'd suggest you program which just
alocates 60Meg and uses them, then quits. This should make your floppy
working
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