(unused) floppy drive kernel errors

[Markku Kolkka]

Tim kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 26. elokuuta 
2007):
> 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.

If some program tries to access the floppy drive when there's no 
disk, the result is an I/O error just like the ones you are 
getting.

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 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi