Previously I submitted a patch for "blk: request botched" on floppy
write.  While the patch did make the floppy work, Jens mentioned 
that an underlying error still existed.   This spurred me on to look a 
little deeper and finally i found the root cause.   

There is a bug in "ll_rw_blk.c" handling partial bvec submissions.
For whatever reason the floppy driver was triggering it more than
other users.  Note that with the attached patch, my previous 
floppy_ patch is no longer needed.

Cheers,
Sean