Comment 20 for bug 384579

I came to this bug from bug #386989. The title of this bug doesn't reflect my problem, but it's probably the same bug anyway. I can confirm this bug on my Thinkpad G40, my kernel log is full of:

   "[ 8319.440050] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0"

lines. However, I *do* have a floppy drive on this laptop. Didn't happen before kernel 2.6.30 in karmic.
"sudo rmmod floppy" stops it for a while, so blacklisting the module works.

Some days ago another error showed in dmesg, talking about a problem in "floppy.c". It was at the end of a lot of such errors. Unfortunately, I didn't write that down, because a few minutes later my laptop froze.