Something Is Hammering Non-existant Floppy

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On my CentOS7 system, I’m getting message sequences in
/var/log/message and in the journal that are nearly identical to the sequence below. They come in multiple times per second.

I’ve deleted the timestamps and system name from the messages.

kernel: floppy0: Getstatus times out (0) on fdc 0
kernel:
kernel: floppy driver state kernel: —————–

4 thoughts on - Something Is Hammering Non-existant Floppy

  • Any chance you have something like automount/autofs set up with a mountpoint for the floppy device?

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    Jonathan Billings

  • …

    Certainly not intentionally. And nothing in /etc/auto.* to suggest so. Also:

    $ systemctl status autofs.service
    ● autofs.service – Automounts filesystems on demand
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Active: inactive (dead)

    On my two Fedora systems I get “autofs.service not found”. Perhaps it is masked there.

    Jon

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    Jon H. LaBadie jcu@labadie.us

  • Are they the same hardware or vms running on the same hypervisor? Where/how is the trouble system running? I’ve seen odd floppy access errors pop up on VMs running on old ESXi systems, and also on systems with BMC/IPMI/ILO/iDRAC remote consoles that provide means to have remote drives.

  • Each is separate hardware, 2 desktop towers and a laptop. No “server” hardware, just a desktop providing some server features eg. email, dns, backup.

    Jon