Comment 21 for bug 384469

I have the same bug :

hccmb@hccmb-desktop:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 1275.620041] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1277.620032] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1279.620036] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1281.620036] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1283.620052] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1285.620067] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1287.620078] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1289.620051] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1291.620042] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 1293.620054] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

With dmesg you can see some of the action ...

put in a floppy disk does ease it, but could not find an other solution yet..
this is on a fresh install of Karmic release 2

ps aux | grep devkit-disks

root 3695 0.0 0.3 16248 3200 ? S 10:44 0:00 /usr/lib/devicekit-disks/devkit-disks-daemon
root 3696 0.0 0.0 5724 768 ? S 10:44 0:00 devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/fd0 /dev/sr0
hccmb 5020 0.0 0.0 3172 832 pts/1 S+ 11:11 0:00 grep devkit-disks

sudo kill ( the pid of the polling )

is an not so nice work around....