From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Description of problem: On shutdown(!) /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia invokes cardmgr which gives on console some info about inability to insert floppy.o (as driver for block device 2). What could this be? Scanning /etc/pcmcia for any floppy-related stuff did not return anything Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Pick laptop without floppy, install Fedore 2.Start to level 3 3.Shutdown and look at the console. Additional info:
I, too, am seeing this problem on a Pentium 4-M notebook.
Also reproducable on IBM Think Pad X31. If I enable the legacy floppy in the BIOS (this allows for the floppy in the dock) the error goes away.
When pcmcia devices are added or removed, updfstab is called to update /etc/fstab for storage devices. It looks at the floppy port for floppy devices, among other things. 'alias floppy off' in /etc/modules.conf should get rid of the messages for you.