Bug#533493: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64: continual stream of errors on floppy drive

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:02:42AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64
> Version: 2.6.30-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> 
> Starting at boot, my floppy drive makes a periodic muffled clicking
> sound, each click apparently accompanied by a kernel error message.
> There is no floppy disk inserted in the drive.  This continues
> indefinitely, though I can stop it by doing "sudo rmmod floppy".
> 
>    $ dmesg|grep -i fd0
>    [    0.489575] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>    [    8.684517] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   56.296028] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   58.276019] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   60.276018] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   62.280017] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   64.280018] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   66.276519] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   68.280017] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   70.280517] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   72.280020] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>    [   74.276517] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> 
> (at that point I did the rmmod floppy, and the errors/clicking stopped)
> 
> Older kernel versions did not seem to do this.
> 
> [I suppose this might be caused by some other software doing a bad job
> of polling removable devices or something, but the behavior seems to
> have started when I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64]

Hi,
The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based
on 2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable/testing and tell
us whether the problem persists. If so, we should report it upstream
to the kernel.org developers.

The 2.6.32 kernel is available from packages.debian.org and can
be installed in both Debian stable, testing and unstable
installations.

Thanks,
        Moritz