Phantom Floppy drive?
Atul Chitnis
achitnis at exocore.com
Tue Feb 17 16:39:25 UTC 2004
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:29:50PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> [...]
> > The issue here is that this is a notebook (an IBM Thinlpad) and it doesn't
> > *have* a floppy drive! In fact I havent owned a notebook with one in
> > almost 7 years!
>
> Wild guess: Does that laptop have the *option* to add a floppy (e.g. as a
> module)? If so, maybe there are some settings in the BIOS to switch off
> any floppy related stuff - just an idea.
Did that - BIOS is set to show the absence of a floppy drive. Despite
this, I get these error messages.
I remember vaguely that the modules system has an option to "blacklist" a
module to stop it from even trying to load, but if I recall correctly that
is only for usb hotplug stuff. I have used that functionality to stop the
dc2xx camera driver from loading, but it doesnt seem to work for floppy.
Atul
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