From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: updfstab generates the following messages in /var/log/messages: Oct 7 12:09:22 aspen kernel: updfstab: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device Oct 7 12:09:22 aspen kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-1.521smp Oct 7 12:09:22 aspen kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Oct 7 12:09:25 aspen kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found Oct 7 12:09:25 aspen modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting floppy (/lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521smp/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): No such device I don't know why it tries to load the floppy driver since there is no floppy drive in this system The FATAL error generates a spurious LogWatch message, which is annoying. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kudzu-1.1.68.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run updfstab on system without floppy 2. 3. Additional info:
You can't tell whether or not there is a floppy drive without loading the floppy driver. install floppy /bin/true in /etc/modprobe.conf will make it go away.