On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm runing potato + Progeny + 2,4 kernel on 2 machines one at home, and one
> at work.
>
> Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an
> erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which
> I NEVER use).
>
> I've posted about this twice in the last week or so, but never goy any
> useful answers. So this morning I wnet through dselect trying to compare
> packages between teh machines, I dleted a few packages on the machine at
> work in an effort to get rid of this (since it make using the console
> impossible). Now it's worse! Now in addiation to that error I'm geting
> "cdrom: open failed"
>
Stan,
Sounds like something is expecting a floppy in the drive. If you
have a spare floppy, put one in the drive and see if a read or write takes
place. If it does, then run lsof during the floppy access - this should
allow you to track down which process is trying to access the floppy
drive.
Hope that helps,
Jor-el
