fd0 module going crazy

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM, Steve Berg wrote:
> Got a new Fedora 11 install on a x86_64 system and the console is pretty
> much unusable because I keep getting the following errors about one every
> 3 or 4 seconds.
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>
> The activity light on the floppy drive is on and stays lit even though
> there is no floppy disk in the drive.  If I do "rmmod floppy" the console
> messages stop but the activity light stays lit.  The only way I can get
> the messages to stop and the drive activiy light to go off is to disable
> the floppy drive in BIOS, course I can't access the drive then either.
>
> Anyone with an idea of what's going on here and how to fix it?

its DeviceKit

try killall devkit-disks-daemon

its in bugzilla but I don't have the number handy.