floppy failure

[Alex Thomsen Leth]

why all these floppy errors. i dont have a floppy.


May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using
address 3May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB
Mass Storage devices
May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel:   Vendor: Generic   Model: STORAGE
DEVICE    Rev: 1.25
May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel:   Type:  
Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel: SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr
sectors (131 MB)
May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel:  sda: sda1
May  4 22:20:10 simba kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2,
channel 0, id 0, lun 0
May  4 22:20:11 simba scsi.agent[3553]: disk at
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/host2/2:0:0:0
May  4 22:20:11 simba kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.327smp
May  4 22:20:14 simba kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
May  4 22:20:14 simba modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting floppy
(/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.327smp/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): No such
device


Alex Thomsen Leth

[Markku Kolkka]

Alex Thomsen Leth kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 4. 
toukokuuta 2004 23:21):
>  why all these floppy errors. i dont have a floppy. 
>  May  4 22:20:14 simba kernel: floppy0: no
>  floppy controllers found 
You are getting the error messages _because_ you don't have a 
floppy.

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	Markku Kolkka
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[Andy Green]

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On Tuesday 04 May 2004 22:34, Markku Kolkka wrote:
>  Alex Thomsen Leth kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 4.
>  toukokuuta 2004 23:21): 
>  You are getting the error messages _because_ you don't have a
>  floppy. 
add

install floppy /bin/true

to /etc/modprobe.conf to kill the floppy module.

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[Michael A. Peters]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 14:37, Andy Green wrote:
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>  On Tuesday 04 May 2004 22:34, Markku Kolkka wrote:
>  > Alex Thomsen Leth kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 4.
>  > toukokuuta 2004 23:21):
>  
>  > You are getting the error messages _because_ you don't have a
>  > floppy.
>  
>  add
>  
>  install floppy /bin/true
>  
>  to /etc/modprobe.conf to kill the floppy module. 
If that is needed to not get errors when you do not have a floppy drive,
kudzu should take care of that - file a bug with kudzu.

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