On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:55:08PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> This is a known (and frequently discussed) problem with the USB disk
> >> support -- the driver needs contiguous memory and can't find it.  
> >> Booting the system with the USB disk attached often helps; you can also 
> >> do things like
> >> 
> >> 	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=128m
> >
> >Well, yes, but will this be _fixed_? :-)  
> 
> I share your frustration -- it's been high on my list of annoyances for 
> quite some time.

Mine, too.. :-I  The dd trick didn't help.  With 1024 MB physical RAM and
16 GB swap, you don't expect to see "no buffer memory" :-I

  -jm