Phantom Floppy drive?

[Andy Green]

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On Tuesday 17 February 2004 15:59, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> Everytime I attach a storage device (like, say, a USB key), and everytime
> I start up or shut down my machine, I get the following:
>
> Feb 17 21:21:20 wookie kernel: inserting floppy driver for
> 2.4.22-1.2135.nptl Feb 17 21:21:20 wookie kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is
> 1.44M
> Feb 17 21:21:23 wookie kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found

stick

alias floppy off

in your /etc/modules.conf

When you move to 2.6, you need to stick

install floppy /bin/true

in /etc/modprobe.conf

instead.

- -Andy

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