Jeremy Foshee: My IBM Thinkpad T43 has BIOS Version 1.29 (70ET69WW) and BIOS Date 2007-05-29. dmesg showed the lines: " [ 61.501944] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 74.570717] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 89.462092] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 102.526178] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 102.526191] __ratelimit: 12 callbacks suppressed [ 102.526198] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [ 115.590787] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 115.590797] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [ 128.654290] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 128.654304] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [ 141.718471] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 141.718485] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [ 154.782160] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0" and so on although I do not have any floppy disk drive. In my BIOS > Floppy Drives > Legacy Floppy Drives I switched 'Enabled' to 'Disabled'. The associated text reads: "Disables diskette drive connector." Now dmesg does not show fd0 related entries any more. '~$ uname -a; Linux T43 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux.'
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