After installing 12.3 my system now has a phantom fixed disk, /dev/fd0.
It shows up in the device notifier in the system tray of KDE. It also
shows up in system info and kinfo center.
If I type in the following, the terminal just hangs and never gives an
answer.
# blkid /dev/fd0
If I type try to mount it, it also hangs:
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/test
When I type in fdisk-l, it shows half the fixed disks I have, then it
hangs momentarily (I assume it is looking for this device), and then it
resumes and shows all my raid devices.
What might this be and how do I get rid of it?
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G.O.
Box #1: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 16GB
Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB
Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.10 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | 8GB
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golson765 wrote:
> After installing 12.3 my system now has a phantom fixed disk, /dev/fd0.
/dev/fd0 is a floppy disk.
If you don’t have one, perhaps your BIOS is capable of handling one? The
linux kernel is told about it by the BIOS and tries to check it out but
fails. Usually that results in a timeout.
It would be worth exploring your BIOS and seeing if you can disable the
floppy.
On 03/25/2013 09:39 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> golson765 wrote:
>> After installing 12.3 my system now has a phantom fixed disk, /dev/fd0.
> /dev/fd0 is a floppy disk.
>
> If you don’t have one, perhaps your BIOS is capable of handling one? The
> linux kernel is told about it by the BIOS and tries to check it out but
> fails. Usually that results in a timeout.
>
> It would be worth exploring your BIOS and seeing if you can disable the
> floppy.
Looks like that was it. My BIOS had a legacy floppy enabled (1.44MB). I
disabled it and rebooted, and /dev/fd0 is no longer there. Thanks!!
Now here is something I am wonderingabout for followup, if anyone wants
to stabat an answer. Why is it that when I was running 12.2, this
phantom floppy was never passed from the BIOS to the kernel and never
showed up in the devices. But when I installed 12.3, it was passed and
displayed in the devices?
–
G.O.
Box #1: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 16GB
Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB
Laptop: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | 8GB
learning openSUSE and loving it