Ubuntu
gparted package

  1. Bug #161791
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 161791

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crf (chrisfahlman) wrote :

Maybe because it is scanning for floppy drives?
There are already bugs about that issue in launchpad, and in gnome bugzilla.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351753
It says that the problem should have been solved in their new release in libparted (which gparted uses), which is not in ubuntu at present.

A workaround to specify the device you want to work with, as described at the link above. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351753#c13
Or you can perhaps disable the floppy drive in the bios.