On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 07:45:03AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: >On Dec 11, 2021, at 23:19, Jon LaBadie <jcu at labadie.us> wrote: >> >> On my CentOS7 system, I'm getting message sequences in >> /var/log/message and in the journal that are nearly identical >> to the sequence below. They come in multiple times per second. >> >> I've deleted the timestamps and system name from the messages. >> >> kernel: floppy0: Getstatus times out (0) on fdc 0 >> kernel: kernel: floppy driver state >> kernel: ------------------- >> kernel: now=4476158515 last interrupt=4476158452 diff=63 last called handler=reset_interrupt [floppy] >> kernel: timeout_message=floppy start >> kernel: last output bytes: >> kernel: 8 81 4388061306 >> kernel: 3 80 4388061326 ... >> kernel: 8 80 4476158452 >> kernel: 12 80 4476158471 >> kernel: last result at 4476158452 >> kernel: last redo_fd_request at 4476158471 >> kernel: status=0 >> kernel: fdc_busy=1 >> kernel: timer_function=ffffffffc01daf70 expires=2957 >> kernel: cont=ffffffffc01dc400 >> kernel: current_req=ffff9b0e72239c80 >> kernel: command_status=-1 >> kernel: >> I persume something is trying to access the system's >> floppy disk drive that does not exist. But I have >> been unable to identify what's triggering all this >> activity. >> >> Any suggestions? > >Any chance you have something like automount/autofs set up with >a mountpoint for the floppy device? > >— >Jonathan Billings Certainly not intentionally. And nothing in /etc/auto.* to suggest so. Also: $ systemctl status autofs.service ● autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) On my two Fedora systems I get "autofs.service not found". Perhaps it is masked there. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jcu at labadie.us