"end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0" appears on screen every few seconds on tty. Thinkpad T43

[camper365]

Every few seconds, when running the latest kernel (2.6.30-9-generic) Linux appears to think that there is a floppy that it can't read from. I have attached the output of dmesg and I used "ubuntu-bug -p linux" to report this.
When I am typing, however, output of this doesn't occur, however, when I am not typing, every 8 seconds, this appears on a tty (not in gnome-terminal, however).
This does not interfere with the command I am typing. For example, if I were to be typing "/etc/init.d/g" and I pause right there, the message pops up, and I finish with "dm restart" It would run just fine.
The problem also occurs while using a text editor such as nano. The text would appear in the lines that are being edited, however, if I move the cursor over top of them, they go back to what is actually in the text file.

I am running a Thinkpad T43 with 1 GB RAM, 40 GB HDD, 1.86 GHz Pentium M Processor. There is no floppy drive built in.
This bug does not exist in old kernel versions (2.6.24 is the earliest kernel version I remember. I first started using Ubuntu at Hardy).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 14 11:14:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=e570e666-1d76-4e30-9ece-5a7f6bf56cd0
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: IBM 266844U
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-9-generic 2.6.30-9.10
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=adf6bbcd-e741-4cfe-9ca8-ed457f399b96 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-9.10-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:

SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1YET65WW (1.29 )
dmi.board.name: 266844U
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1YET65WW(1.29):bd08/21/2006:svnIBM:pn266844U:pvrThinkPadT43:rvnIBM:rn266844U:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 266844U
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T43
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM

[camper365 (camper365)]

By the way, I'm running Karmic Alpha 2. I don't think I wrote that before.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi camper365,

This looks to be a duplicate of bug 384579 so I am marking it as such for now. Please continue to track this issue at that report. Thanks.