I came to this bug from bug #386989. The title of this bug doesn't reflect my problem, but it's probably the same bug anyway. I can confirm this bug on my Thinkpad G40, my kernel log is full of:
"[ 8319.440050] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0" lines. However, I *do* have a floppy drive on this laptop. Didn't happen before kernel 2.6.30 in karmic. "sudo rmmod floppy" stops it for a while, so blacklisting the module works. Some days ago another error showed in dmesg, talking about a problem in "floppy.c". It was at the end of a lot of such errors. Unfortunately, I didn't write that down, because a few minutes later my laptop froze. -- Linux thinks there’s a floppy drive when there’s not. Probing slows down bootup by almost a minute. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384579 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
