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end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 (openfiler)

Error:

When you try to open volume groups page from open filer, either its hang or take too long to open and at the same time you see bellow error log ..

Jan 12 09:07:44 filer2 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Jan 12 09:07:44 filer2 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0

Solution for openfiler:

Remove the floppy modules from kernel or disable it from kernel.

How to remove:

# lsmod | grep -i floppy

Output should be :
floppy 95465 0

Now remove the module :
# modprobe -r floppy

How to disable:
Ref :

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-end_request-ioerror-dev-fd0-sector0/

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2 Responses to “end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 (openfiler)”

  1. jmk says:
    May 1, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    had this same error. turned out to be BIOS setting for floppy was enabled. once it was disabled in BIOS, the error went away and the system worked fine.

  2. jak says:
    May 16, 2010 at 8:22 am

    WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
    FATAL: Module floppy is in use.

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