Ubuntu
devicekit-disks package

  1. Bug #384469
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 384469

Revision history for this message
Daniel Drummond (dmdrummondx) wrote :

A temporary fix is

$ devkit-disks --inhibit-polling /devices/fd0 &

I'm looking for the configuration file to disable floppy polling completely.

Perhaps a lower frequency of polling the floppy drives would be better, ie a longer gap than 2 seconds. It took me a while to find where the constant ticking noise was when I first noticed this on my computer.