don't have a floppy, but kernel thinks so

[Mike Burger]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Brian Millett wrote:

> Hello, I've installed fedora core on a toshiba satellite 1135-S155.  Man
> it works great.  One problem I have is in the /var/log/messages I see
> this references to a floppy:
> 
> Nov 10 16:49:12 shaka kernel: inserting floppy driver for
> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka insmod:
> /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o:
> init_module: No such device
> Nov 10 16:49:15 shaka insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
> incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ
> parameters.       You may find more information in syslog or the output
> from dmesg
> 
> Now, there is not a floppy on this beast.  How do I tell the kernel to
> ignore the floppy?

It's already doing so.  It's trying to load the floppy driver, finding 
that there's no floppy controller, and abandoning it.  It winds up not 
bothering, once it doesn't find it.

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