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  1. Bug #255651
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Comment 55 for bug 255651

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Vic Parker (v-parker2) wrote : Re: floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid final release kernel 2.6.27-9

Vic Parker wrote on 2009-1-30
My floppy drive is not available. I use a Sony laptop PCG-FX503
Here is an extract from my Message Log:

Jan 30 09:20:34 victor-laptop kernel: [ 42.580933] cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Jan 30 09:20:34 victor-laptop kernel: [ 44.659622] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Jan 30 09:20:34 victor-laptop kernel: [ 44.659644] floppy0: Unable to grab IRQ6 for the floppy driver
Jan 30 09:20:34 victor-laptop kernel: [ 44.703769] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).

I update every day. The latest version was Ubuntu Linux 2.6.27-11.27

It appears that my computer knows I have a floppy drive but needs to grab IRQ6 and it appears that something else has grabbed it first. The other comments on this bug do not mention this.