[Bug 384579] Re: Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down bootup by almost a minute.

[Matteo Settenvini]

I came to this bug from bug #386989. The title of this bug doesn't
reflect my problem, but it's probably the same bug anyway. I can confirm
this bug on my Thinkpad G40, my kernel log is full of:

   "[ 8319.440050] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0"

lines. However, I *do* have a floppy drive on this laptop. Didn't happen before kernel 2.6.30 in karmic.
"sudo rmmod floppy" stops it for a while, so blacklisting the module works.

Some days ago another error showed in dmesg, talking about a problem in
"floppy.c". It was at the end of a lot of such errors. Unfortunately, I
didn't  write that down, because a few minutes later my laptop froze.

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Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down bootup by almost a minute.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384579
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