On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 12:56 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote: > If some program tries to access the floppy drive when there's no > disk, the result is an I/O error just like the ones you are > getting. I can't think what would be. There isn't any thing that's been used to access it, ever, on this installation. There's no shortcuts aimed at it. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.