Comment 15 for bug 384469

 marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote on 2009-06-09: (permalink)

A work around is to blacklist the floppy module:

sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

add

blacklist floppy

and then run update-initramfs:

sudo update-initramfs -u

This workaround corrected my constant floppy drive polling. Great solution and appreciate the information. :^>