Ubuntu – How to disable floppy drive

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I have a old Athlon X2 based system with an attached floppy drive. I had some old floppies which are now safely backed up on CD's.

Is there a way to simply disable the floppy drive, so that it wont be accessed in any way by the OS? I would not have bothered, but ubuntu seems to continually access the drive, and it is annoyingly noisy. Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

A more complicated answer as I have a laptop with no floppy drive.

  1. Edit /etc/fstab to remove reference to floppy.

  2. Edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add this line at the end:

    install floppy /bin/false

  3. Run: sudo update-initramfs -u

  4. Run: sudo update-grub

  5. Reboot.

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