Floppy is autoaccessed every second and makes noise

[Yuri Nikiforov]

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 alpha 2 and floppy started making noise every second. Also in any active tty I got strings like "[xxxx.xxxxxxxx] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0", here x - some numbers.
The same thing happens with live boot from 9.10 alpha 2 cd. I found similar issue discribed here http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-end_request-ioerror-dev-fd0-sector0/ but it is said there that this happens when there is no floppy drive installed. My PC configuration: MB Asus A7V880, CPU AMD Athlon 2500+, RAM 640Mb.

[Lars Ljung (larslj)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This looks like a duplicate of bug 384469. Can you confirm this?

[Yuri Nikiforov (nikiforov2000)]

Hi

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This looks like a duplicate of bug 384469. Can you
> confirm this?

Yes, it definitely looks like a duplicate of bug #384469. I can't try
solutions from #384469 discussion page right now so I can't tell if they
work for me. I'll check
them in the evening and write you wheter floppy is still making noise and
whether floppy is working at all solutions applied.

WBR, Nik.

[Yuri Nikiforov (nikiforov2000)]

Hi

Upgraded to latest updates and now floppy doesn't make noise, but it doesn't
work. And usb drives and usb card reader neither :-(

WBR, Nik

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

This is a duplicate of bug #384469, which is now fixed.
About floppy not working now, have a look to this bug #441835.
Thank you.