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It is annoying enough that my BIOS has no switch that allows me to disable the floppy-seek at boot. But when I boot CentOS 5 the floppy seeks again - I suspect hald to do this.

How can I disable that seek (/dev/fd0)?

Nils
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If the floppy drive is not in use anyway, the better solution may well be to simply disable the floppy module. You can do this as follows:

echo blacklist floppy > /etc/modprobe.d/00-disablefloppy.conf
Chris Down
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  • It works. But perhaps there is a more generic answer. I remember disabling IDE on my servers at work so udev (or hald?) did not discover empty virtual DVDs (from RAC) - but that was SLES, and I have to look it up again... – Nils May 26 '12 at 21:04