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. -- floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid final release kernel 2.6.27-9 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255651 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
