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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Device not ready messages in syslog

From: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:30:57 -0500

Reply-to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

On one of my FC4 machines, /var/log/messages keeps filling up with thiscrap:


Mar 19 04:02:30 lazarus kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Mar 19 04:03:02 lazarus last message repeated 16 times
Mar 19 04:04:03 lazarus last message repeated 30 times
Mar 19 04:05:05 lazarus last message repeated 30 times
Mar 19 04:06:06 lazarus last message repeated 30 times
Mar 19 04:07:07 lazarus last message repeated 30 times

etcetera.

This machine has an IDE floppy drive, (i.e., a floppy drive on /dev/hda)which is likely the source of this message. My question is: what is tryingto repeatedly accessing the IDE floppy drive, and how do I shut it up?

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