Phantom Floppy drive?

[Jack Bowling]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:09:25PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:29:50PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> > [...]
> > > The issue here is that this is a notebook (an IBM Thinlpad) and it doesn't 
> > > *have* a floppy drive! In fact I havent owned a notebook with one in 
> > > almost 7 years!
> > 
> > Wild guess: Does that laptop have the *option* to add a floppy (e.g. as a
> > module)? If so, maybe there are some settings in the BIOS to switch off
> > any floppy related stuff - just an idea.
> 
> Did that - BIOS is set to show the absence of a floppy drive. Despite 
> this, I get these error messages.
> 
> I remember vaguely that the modules system has an option to "blacklist" a 
> module to stop it from even trying to load, but if I recall correctly that 
> is only for usb hotplug stuff. I have used that functionality to stop the 
> dc2xx camera driver from loading, but it doesnt seem to work for floppy.

In the modules.conf world you can turn off module loading by doing:

alias floppy off

However, a lot of modules.conf functionality is still lacking in modprobe.conf so I'm unsure if this would work in modprobe.conf.

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Jack Bowling
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