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Whenever I remove external hard drive or USB flash drive, a Floppy Disk icon appears in launcher. If I unlock it, it goes away but only until I use a USB device again.

How to stop this?

BTW I don't have an actual floppy disk drive installed. However, in Nautilus "Floppy Disk" is listed among devices. Is this normal?

Dexter
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You can try creating an udev rule to hide the floppy from the unity launcher and nautilus.

For Ubuntu 12.10 & 13.04

  1. Create the udev rule.

    • sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-floppy.rules

      Match the KERNEL key with your device (floppy=fd)* and assign the UDISKS variable.

    • The content of the 99-hide-floppy.rules file would be:

      KERNEL=="fd*", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

    • To save the changes in nano... Ctrl+O, then Enter and finally Ctrl+X.

  2. Finally refresh the udev rules with:

    • sudo udevadm trigger

For Ubuntu 12.04

  • The only difference is the name of the UDISKS variable. It should be ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE} instead ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}

    KERNEL=="fd*", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

Hope this helps.

user.dz
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Roman Raguet
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You need to go into your bios settings and tell it you do not have a floppy drive.

psusi
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