It might be unrelated. Or maybe somehow touching a disk is triggering a probe of the floppy. Just wild speculation. Trying to disable the drive in bios or rmmod'ing the floppy driver might change the behavior.
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 22:23 Michael Ewan <michaelewa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did think of removing the floppy in BIOS, but the question still presents > itself, why do I get errors when accessing a mounted disk? > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 10:15 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net > > > wrote: > > > This might be relevant: > > > > > > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53513/linux-disable-dev-fd0-floppy > > > > -- > > Russell > > > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 9:28 PM Michael Ewan <michaelewa...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > I am setting up a file server, currently Ubuntu Server 22.04. I have > > three > > > 1TB data disks, two act normally, the third is telling me there are > > errors > > > on the floppy device. Could someone shed some light on this? Thanks. > > > The disks are in an LVM volume group, the logical volumes are specified > > as > > > the whole disk to isolate one from the other. They have an XFS file > > > system. I was running Bonnie++ to exercise the disks. Here is the > dmesg > > > output. > > > This is repeatable. > > > > > > [105001.499913] xfs filesystem being mounted at /data2 supports > > timestamps > > > until 2038 (0x7fffffff) > > > [111473.198440] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > > > [111473.198449] print_req_error: 4 callbacks suppressed > > > [111473.198451] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op > > > 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 > > > [111473.198526] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > > > [111473.198529] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op > > > 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 > > > [111473.198543] Buffer I/O error on dev fd0, logical block 0, async > page > > > read > > > [111475.418535] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > > > [111475.418543] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op > > > 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 > > > [111475.418627] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > > > [111475.418630] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op > > > 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 > > > [111475.418645] Buffer I/O error on dev fd0, logical block 0, async > page > > > read > > > [111476.023674] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > > > [111476.023682] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op > > > 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 > > > [111476.023812] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > > > [111476.023815] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op > > > 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 > > > [111476.023825] Buffer I/O error on dev fd0, logical block 0, async > page > > > read > > >