Floppy detected on GigaByte GA-X58-USB3 even though it is not present

[Keith Mnemonic]

I am running TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.2 with a GigaByte GA-X58-USB3. This motherboard has the Gigabyte Q-Flash and it seems this is somehow causing TrueNAS to detect a floppy device. There is no floppy listed in BIOS and no way to disable Q-Flash. If I "blacklist" the floppy in /etc/modprobe.d, TrueNAS does not see it anymore and the system runs fine. The problem is if I apply a TrueNAS update it wipes out my blacklist and then I have to manually blacklist it again. Is there any way to make disabling the floppy persistent? This is the error it see's when it is not blacklisted

kern.log:Apr 18 15:07:32 XXXXXX kernel: floppy: error 10 while reading block 0

Keith

 

[jgreco]

Yes, either buy a motherboard that doesn't have whatever dumb misfeature is involved, or add a startup task to add your blacklist entry on every boot. TrueNAS is an appliance OS and isn't designed to be customized in this manner to work around broken hardware. This is one of the many reasons we recommend people invest in the recommended hardware known to work correctly with TrueNAS.

 

[Keith Mnemonic]

Thank you. I will try the init script. This is an old motherboard I had lying around with some decent RAM and CPU and figured it was worth playing with.