Floppy Drives

[Paul Groves]

I still use floppy disks everyday and they work fine on 18.04 with one 
problem:

My SCSI floppy drive (and USB to FDD adapter) keep on being polled by 
udev and the drive goes click, click every 5/10 seconds or so and I have 
no idea how to prevent it.

I have to shut down and unplug the floppy drive power to prevent udev 
destroying the drives. I already lost one because of this problem.

I have posted about it here before but it seems nobody could help. The 
openSUSE list helped me to find udev is the cause. See post on their list.

It appears that udev recognises the floppy drives as hard disks (because 
they are not a standard FDD controller but via usb/scsi).

Can anyone help me resolve this?

thanks

Paul