On Friday 02 January 2004 10:59 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: [...]
<6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
The ide-floppy driver is for an LS-120 floppy disk drive which connects just like a cdrom or hard drive to the ide controller. I do not have a regular floppy drive, but an LS-120 as hdb. It was a _much_ better choice AISI than a zip drive at the time. Seems to be rather difficult to obtain the LS-120 floppy media now. It does read regular 3.5 inch floppys and faster than the regular floppy drive.
I believe that it has been compiled into the kernel now, no longer loaded as a module. I get the messages also:
pat@wahoo:~> grep floppy /var/log/boot.* /var/log/boot.msg:<4>floppy0: no floppy controllers found /var/log/boot.msg:<4>hdb: LS-120 VER5 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive /var/log/boot.msg:<6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide /var/log/boot.msg:<4>hdb: attached ide-floppy driver. /var/log/boot.msg:<6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide /var/log/boot.omsg:<4>floppy0: no floppy controllers found /var/log/boot.omsg:<4>hdb: LS-120 VER5 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive /var/log/boot.omsg:<6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide /var/log/boot.omsg:<4>hdb: attached ide-floppy driver. /var/log/boot.omsg:<6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
But not as many as you, probably because your's is indicating a fault since you do not have the drive. Notice that mine shows that I do not have a floppy controller. I do but disabled it in the bios, which you cannot do for the ide-floppy. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org ==============
Ok, I understand at least now what it is. Maybe I should check my bios settings, but otherwise it doesn't sound like it's anything to worry about, since it doesn't seem to be affecting the operation of my machine. Thanks, Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...