(unused) floppy drive kernel errors

[Tim]

Hi,

Almost every day I see the following warning in the logwatch mail:

>  --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ 
>  WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
>     end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector ...:  1 Time(s) 
>  ---------------------- Kernel End -------------------------

Which doesn't make any sense.  Yes, I have a floppy drive.  But, I don't
use it.  There's no disk in the drive.  And, as far as I'm aware, it
does actually work, fine.  Not that I've got a disk to test it with, at
the moment.

Does anyone else get the same thing?

Looking through /var/log/messages, I see entries like these:

# grep fd0 /var/log/messages.1

Aug 21 09:14:24 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 22 15:00:45 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 22 17:42:59 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 23 11:17:07 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 23 11:34:25 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 23 16:38:39 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 23 18:30:21 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 24 10:48:32 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 24 16:25:01 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 25 12:52:28 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 25 13:25:53 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 25 20:52:10 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 26 13:37:40 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

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