[Bug 155047] Re: gparted hangs "Scanning all Devices" forever (because of /dev/fd0)

[Curtis Gedak]

@Kieran, perhaps your BIOS is incorrectly set to indicate that the
floppy drive is present when there is no physical floppy drive present?

Often an incorrectly set BIOS can cause this problem.

If not, other things to try are to defragment NTFS and FAT file systems.

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Title:
  gparted hangs "Scanning all Devices" forever (because of /dev/fd0)

Status in Gnome Partition Editor:
  Fix Released
Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
     In my system, starting gparted all I get is the app window saying
  "Scanning all devices" for ever (== at least half an hour... that's as
  far as my patience goes :))

  If a floppy drive is activated in the computer BIOS, but not available
  physically, gparted enters an infinite loop while scanning devices.

  WORKAROUNDS:
  a) disable your floppy drive in the computer BIOS
  b) start gparted with the device you want to work on, e.g. "gparted /dev/sda"
  c) NOT RECOMMENDED/UNTESTED: move away /dev/fd0 before starting gparted

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