Bug 505417

Summary: System continuously attempts to access empty floppy drive
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marc Milgram <mmilgram>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Marc Milgram 2009-06-11 20:27:18 UTC 
Description of problem:
Floppy drive has no media in it, but light stays lit.  /var/log/messages shows messages of the following form every 2 seconds:
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

I am not certain which component is attempting to access the floppy drive.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.30-0.97.rc8.fc12.x86_64


How reproducible:
Easy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system with empty floppy drive
2. Watch for floppy light
3. Look in /var/log/messages
  
Actual results:
floppy light stays on continuously.
/var/log/messages fills with end_request: I/O error, dev fd0 errors.


Expected results:
floppy light stays off most of the time.
/var/log/messages doesn't get floppy errors every 2 seconds.


Additional info:
The hardware involved is Dell Precision T5400
Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2009-06-12 16:27:38 UTC 
The odds

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 496586 ***