how to turn off floppy and parport in linux

[Aditya Apparao]

I am running Redhat 3(2.4.21-15.ELsmp) on a bl20p(blade) server. It has no floppy drive or parallel port. However I get the following messages:
Jul 13 14:12:55 localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Jul 13 14:12:55 localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o: insmod parport_lowlevel failed

[Stuart Browne]

The paralell port stuff should just be an issue of removing the modules listed in '/etc/modules.conf' to stop them from loading.

If they aren't in there, you might try putting in:

alias parport_pc off

to try to forcibly stop it.

As for the floppy, that's an unknown to me (never used a machine that didn't have one). In all honesty, I don't believe you can remove support for at least a basic floppy (IDE/SCSI/USB floppy drives are a different kettle-of-fish, having to have modules or core kernel support compiled in (not usually done by default)).