On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:13:33AM -0500, Norman Ramsey wrote: > I have a 'modern' machine with no 3.5-inch floppy drive. > For some reason though, my /dev includes a /dev/fd0.
I suppose you're using udev and have a dynamic /dev, containing only devices which are actually present? In that case, this is strange. Perhaps you can try to switch off floppy support in the BIOS? > As a result, when I launch qtparted, it hangs trying to mess with /dev/fd0. > Here's a sample from /var/log/kern.log: > > Jan 16 00:57:08 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical > block 0 > Jan 16 00:57:20 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 ... > This is probably a problem in some underlying library as gparted shows > similar behavior. Actually, it looks more like a problem with your kernel. qtparted, being a normal user-space program, should be unable to generate such messages in the kernel log. Of course it would be nice if it would be able to handle such kernel bugs, but IMO programs may rely on bug-free kernels and don't need workarounds. That is, I'd suggest that this problem be fixed in the kernel, not in *parted. If I properly understand it, of course. :-) Thanks, Bas Wijnen (who isn't really affiliated with qtparted in any way) -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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