Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

Once upon a time.....

I removed my floppy disk from my computer. I wanted a new HDD installed, but with lack of space in a Qbic and no use for the floppy I decided to get it out. No problems here...

After the startup I started Gparted to install the new disk. It took an amazing long time for Gparted to start up. Apparently it was looking for the floppy. So to keep that from happening this is what you have to do.

Open file called /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:

vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Listing a module (driver name) in this file prevents the hotplug scripts from loading it. Usually that’d be so that some other driver will bind it instead,
no matter which driver happens to get probed first. Sometimes user mode tools can also control driver binding. Append following line:

blacklist floppy

 Now you can reboot and won't have the pain anymore

reboot