Detects "Floppy Drive" but no floppy drive in computer

Thank you for your bug report, could you get devicekit-disks --dump and gvfs-mount -li logs too?

Here are the outputs of those commands. Both indicate that there is a
floppy drive in the computer but there really isn't.

ok, it's a devicekit-disks or linux issue rather then, reassigning

Could you get lspci, dmsg and udevadm info --export-db logs too?

Thank you for looking into this. I checked backed up syslog messages
when the computer still ran Jaunty. Jaunty also detected a floppy
drive while booting but I can't remember it showing up in Gnome. Would
it help if I checked how the computer is wired internally? Maybe the
fd controller is connected to something else.

Possibly related and with more log files: bug #459945.

I can confirm this bug on my computer as well - didn't happen on Jaunty, but present on Karmic. No floppy drive connected, but item still shows up.

Seems that the kernel detects a floppy drive although there is none:

[ 1.466717] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 1.493676] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

I am having the same problem.
Kernel is reporting that there is a floppy drive however no floppy drive available.
Problem started from Ubuntu 9.10. Also in 10.04 I have a floppy entry.

I am affected too.
~$ uname -a; Linux T43 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux.'
When booting, a message: "floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M" appears although I do not have a floppy drive.
'~$ iotop' shows the process 'mount /media/floppy 0' for about 10 mins after boot-up start time.

Hi All,
   has anyone affected by this checked to see if there is a BIOS option that enables a floppy on their hardware? I ask this due to a number of reports of a similar nature where the BIOS is telling the kernel that there is a floppy when there is not. I have been informed that disabling the floppy in the BIOS has resolved this issue for a number of people. I look forward to your feedback.

Thanks!

~JFo

Jeremy Foshee: My IBM Thinkpad T43 has BIOS Version 1.29 (70ET69WW) and BIOS Date 2007-05-29.
dmesg showed the lines: "
[ 61.501944] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 74.570717] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 89.462092] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 102.526178] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 102.526191] __ratelimit: 12 callbacks suppressed
[ 102.526198] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[ 115.590787] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 115.590797] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[ 128.654290] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 128.654304] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[ 141.718471] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 141.718485] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[ 154.782160] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0"
and so on although I do not have any floppy disk drive.
In my BIOS > Floppy Drives > Legacy Floppy Drives I switched 'Enabled' to 'Disabled'. The associated text reads: "Disables diskette drive connector."
Now dmesg does not show fd0 related entries any more.
'~$ uname -a; Linux T43 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux.'

GNOME menu Places > floppy0 still exists.
Disk Mounter 2.30.0 applet still shows "flopp0 (not mounted)."

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported series, please file a new bug.

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