At start-up, when my floppy drive is not in the media bay, dmesg has: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-1-686 floppy0: no floppy controllers found Which is completely correct, but is it possible to avoid this error? Or is this simply a natural consequence of probing for the drive? I don't get any message saying my CD-RW is missing when the floppy is in that bay. -- derek