[Bug 384579] Re: Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down bootup by almost a minute.

[Andrew Cowie]

I installed the April 29th lucid 10.04 release and was affected by this
on a Thinkpad T43. The bios fix of disabling legacy floppy drives worked
for me. The bug also caused constantly on hard drive i/o light, and
constant probing of (non-existent) fd0 after boot - this is fixed with
the bios fix.

$ uname -a
Linux mah-laptop 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

fd0 probing results in syslog error message: Buffer I/O error on device
fd0, logical block 0

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Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down bootup by almost a minute.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384579
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