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
> >
>

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