Attached is my dmesg from a single bootup. I am using kernel 2.4.21-rc1 
atop a fully updated RedHat 9.0 installation.

I don't understand why I'm getting the same pointless sda error over and 
over. I am getting hundreds of the same message each day. It is 
especially annoying since it writes the message to my console.

The Message:
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Current sd00:00: sns = 70  2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x11 0x00 0x00 0x00 
0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xff 0xfe 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: Write Protect is off
  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
  unable to read partition table
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.

I am using a parallel port IOMEGA Zipdrive as detected in the attached 
dmesg. It looks like the driver is trying to mount the zipdrive when it 
isn't told to. Given that I don't keep a disk in it, it always fails. 
Zipdrives are like floppy and cdrom drives. They should be mounted 
*only* when the user requests it.
So my question is how do I eliminate the repeating message without 
removing my zipdrive?
I also attached my kernel conf0��0

Thanks,
David