Floppy & FC2

[Alexander Apprich]

Don,

Don Woodward wrote:
> I upgraded my hardware from a P2-MMX 200MHz to a Celeron 2.4GHz.
> 
> My new system doesn't have a floppy drive - I tried to remove the floppy
> support with "modprobe -r floppy" and it seems to take it, but "modprobe -l
> | grep floppy" still shows it and I still get the following errors in
> logwatch:
> 
> Errors inserting modules:
>    floppy (/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko) :
>       No such device  : 21 Time(s)
> 
> Is there any fix for this short of rebuilding my kernel?
> 

Might be just a workaround, but edit you /etc/modprobe.conf and put

    remove floppy

in it. In future you might want to add a floppy drive...

> TIA
> 
> Don W.
> 


Hth

Alex