server disk erro

Linode Staff

Running a Ubuntu 18.04 distribution and when my server starts it gives the following error

kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 0

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Hey it seems you might be running into an error from a missing floppy disk drive. Even if there is no floppy disk drive, your Linode must have detected some device as floppy or created a reference to a non existent drive. There’s a couple posts I found online that goes over this and more that I’ll provide but the following commands should work to remove the drive and fix your error:

You’ll want to run these two commands to remove the floppy disk module.

sudo rmmod floppy

echo "blacklist floppy" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-floppy.conf

After running these it should remove the drive and fix the error upon booting up. For more references, here are the forum links I found that gave these solutions

Hope this helps.

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