syslog > 500mb daily - hdb: No disk in drive
Hello,
I have a machine which for no particular reason has a zip drive in it. I've never used this drive, I don't even have any zip disks. The problem I'm getting is that the syslog is constantly filling up with data. I am trying to figure out how to get these messages to stop.. other than putting a zip disk in the drive or just yanking it. I guess it's not big deal, as it's a $25 computer for a 3 year old.. and as long as he can get to disney, jetix, and other websites, and gcompris is working, he doesn't care if it has a zip drive. :P But it's bugging the crap out of me. Any help would be appreciated. Here is some system info. slackware 11.0 , kernel 2.4.33.2 root@bromine:/etc/rc.d# cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 root@bromine:/etc/rc.d# cat /etc/mtab /dev/hda2 / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devgid=10,devmode=0666 0 0 cat /var/log/dmesg Linux version 2.4.33.3 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 Fri Sep 1 01:48:52 CDT 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000000fff3000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 255MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 65520 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 61424 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 933.373 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1861.22 BogoMIPS Memory: 255700k/262080k available (1926k kernel code, 5996k reserved, 577k data, 124k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb410, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Via IRQ fixup PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_I RQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST330621A, ATA DISK drive hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hdc: _NEC NR-7500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: FX4830T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63, UDMA(100) hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) hdb: attached ide-floppy driver. hdb: No disk in drive hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 libata version 1.20 loaded. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 md: linear personality registered as nr 1 md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 1544.400 MB/sec 32regs : 854.400 MB/sec pIII_sse : 1913.200 MB/sec pII_mmx : 2093.600 MB/sec p5_mmx : 2206.400 MB/sec raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1913.200 MB/sec) md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003) Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed Adding Swap: 995988k swap-space (priority -1) EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Here is what it's filling the logs with: Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: hdb: No disk in drive Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 1e, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: hdb: No disk in drive Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 1e, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: hdb: No disk in drive Mar 28 02:44:55 bromine kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 1e, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 Oh, and the machine is also using lilo.. here's the conf. root@bromine:/etc/rc.d# grep -v ^# /etc/lilo.conf boot = /dev/hda2 message = /boot/boot_message.txt prompt timeout = 2 change-rules reset vga = normal image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda2 label = Linux read-only |
Shutdown, open the machine and unplug the ribbon cable and power from the drive, reboot.
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I don't know if it's better; the system will still be continuously polling an unused piece of "equipment" (in polite terms). :)
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