Can someone tell me about this? I am getting this in my bootup and wondering why and what it is and if it can be stopped? ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide appears about 65 times, once it begins from the excerpt shown below. I haven't been able to track it down yet or determine if it can be stopped. You'll notice I get it earlier, then the cdrom thing, then 65 of them again. Doesn't seem to be a problem, as the system and all drives work well, so just guessing it is being generated from something odd? <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <4>hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. <6>hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Thoughts, solutions? Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
* BandiPat <penguin0601@earthlink.net> [01-02-04 22:49]:
I am getting this in my bootup and wondering why and what it is and if it can be stopped? ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide appears about 65 times, once it begins from the excerpt shown below. I haven't been able to track it down yet or determine if it can be stopped. You'll notice I get it earlier, then the cdrom thing, then 65 of them again. Doesn't seem to be a problem, as the system and all drives work well, so just guessing it is being generated from something odd?
<6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <4>hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. <6>hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>cdrom: open failed. <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide <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
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...
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