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#1 2006-05-30 13:50:45

dienadel
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Registered: 2005-12-23
Posts: 179

I don't want the floppy

Hello,

I don't want to use anymore the floppy drive, so i made a lsmod to see what was the name of that module. I found one called "ide-floppy", so i added it to the black list of the modules in "rc.conf". Restarted the system, and, the module has been loaded :-(

So, i'm in doubt if that module is loaded by another one.

What am i missing?

Thanks!

dienadel

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#2 2006-05-30 14:41:00

FUBAR
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Re: I don't want the floppy

lsmod | grep floppy

You can see which other module is using the ide-floppy module.


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#3 2006-05-30 14:43:14

dienadel
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Posts: 179

Re: I don't want the floppy

humm, i'm at work, i can't do that, but i quite sure that i made that to see what was the name of the floppy module, and the only output was "ide-floppy". But i'll repeat it at home.

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#4 2006-05-30 14:48:17

iBertus
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From: Greenville, NC
Registered: 2004-11-04
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Re: I don't want the floppy

I may be wrong, but I don't think ide-floppy is the module for normal floppy devices. I may be wrong!

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#5 2006-05-30 15:31:20

Snowman
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
Posts: 5,212

Re: I don't want the floppy

To get rid of the floppy module, you'll need to customize your initrd (or initramfs depending which one you use):
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ini … our_Initrd

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#6 2006-05-31 10:10:55

dienadel
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Registered: 2005-12-23
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Re: I don't want the floppy

Yes, customizing my initrd, doesn't load the ide-floppy module.

But, what i really really want, is that the floppy doesn't exists itself. In other words, i don't want nor /dev/fd0 nor the floppy in KDE, Gnome...

What i thought in the beginning, was that not loadind the floppy module, the floppy would desappear from the whole system. Now, i think, that i would play with the udev configuration, isn't it? (or open the PC box, and extract it ;-)

Thanks

Dienadel

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#7 2006-05-31 10:42:44

iphitus
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2004-10-09
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Re: I don't want the floppy

if you dont want /dev/fd0 and any other references, then removing ide-floppy would do what you want. as well as your initrd make sure you also blacklist it in your rc.conf if you have autoload enabled.

James

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#8 2006-05-31 11:05:32

twiistedkaos
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Registered: 2006-05-20
Posts: 666

Re: I don't want the floppy

dienadel wrote:

Yes, customizing my initrd, doesn't load the ide-floppy module.

But, what i really really want, is that the floppy doesn't exists itself. In other words, i don't want nor /dev/fd0 nor the floppy in KDE, Gnome...

What i thought in the beginning, was that not loadind the floppy module, the floppy would desappear from the whole system. Now, i think, that i would play with the udev configuration, isn't it? (or open the PC box, and extract it ;-)

Thanks

Dienadel

Err... just remove your floppy drive so IDE doesn't detect ti anymore...

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