Paul Groves composed on 2018-10-22 20:49 (UTC+0100):
I know this is old but I had to use my floppy drive
today to update a
device firmware. I actually forgot about this issue. My workaround until
now was to insert a broken floppy disk and it stopped the drive being
polled.
I used to do firmware update from floppy, but found it's more often easier to setup a
BIOS
update by putting a FAT formatted DOS bootable HD in a USB device to load the update
software
onto, then boot the BIOS update target from the DOS HD.
Some of my most used PCs that have floppy drives have a floppy hanging out to serve as a
minimalist lift handle. If I encounter an errant floppy access attempt, I just shove it in
until
the issue is past.
I just tried:
echo 0 > /sys/block/sdd/events_poll_msecs
as root and this workaround sorts out the problem
until reboot.
udevadm monitor shows nothing before or after this
command. by default
/sys/block/sdd/events_poll_msecs is set to -1
This problem also exists on my dual boot of Ubuntu
18.04.1, on which the
same workaround is working.
How can I make this workaround permanent?
Or has this been resolved and not released yet?
Running on latest LEAP
I use floppies so rarely that I keep them disabled in BIOS except for any short periods
they are
actually needed.
During installation, broken.modules=floppy is an option. Maybe it works for normal boots
too?
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