I've been running Mandriva 2008 on my Satellite s1800 for a few weeks now, and working quite well. An annoying problem is that after suspend-to-disk the floppy drive is continually being accessed on resume. The problem seems to manifest during the suspend-to-disc as I find the following in syslog upon resume

This happens even with no disc in the drive. I still use floppies now and then as I don't have flashy flash drives. I could put up with this but once in this state I cannot mount a floppy, unless I open mcc and close it again. This releases the drive. Any ideas anybody please?

Is harddrake running? If it is, try disabling it.

Thank you Scarecrow, disabled harddrake with exactly the same result. Did a cold boot after battery removal and total power-down. No change I'm afraid. It seems like this is an oddball as there are not many suggestions. Any others are more than welcome.

Sussed it. Set to allow all users to mount/unmout the the drive. Works a treat now.
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