how to stop accesses to fd0 in rawhide

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Mon Jun 15 18:37:29 UTC 2009


On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:24:21 -0400, Clyde wrote:

> On 06/14/2009 04:02 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:10:43 -0400, Clyde wrote:
> >
> >> what is causing the floppy accesses?  I understand that the kernel now
> >> contains (activated?) floppy code.  If I put a floppy in the drive, it
> >> stops of course, but after taking the floppy out, constant accesses
> >> start up again.
> >>
> >> Very annoying.
> >
> > device-kit-daemon
> >
> > Kill that process for now. It probes fd0 here approx. every two seconds.
> >
> 
> 
> I can't find such a daemon.  And devkit-daemon --inhibit doesn't seem to 
> work.

Not even with "ps" or "top"?
"killall devkit-disks-daemon"?

 devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/fd0 /dev/sr0 [...]




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