It's a darn shame that "the powers that be" don't care to fix something that is still of a great deal of importance to a few hundred thousand people - *buntu users. I recently added a floppy drive to my machine. It didn't work, but I just figured there was some package that didn't get loaded. So I found what I could with the fdutils package, and eventually found a workaround including a requirement for manual (menu select) mount and manual (menu select) umount, thanks to helpful users in kubuntuforums.net.
I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 - which is a LTS release - and, yes, direct support for floppy drives is lacking. I realize that someone, apparently having a great deal of power, would rather say WORKFORME than to offer up a solution that might actually help those who otherwise like and enjoy the (alleged) stability and utility of a long term support Linux distro. At least an answer of WONTFIX would have been an honest, as well as consistent answer. I'm glad it works in PJSingh5000's platform, and I look forward to a later Kubuntu LTS that actually works the way that Kubuntu used to work before floppies were randomly pushed aside. And that WORKS FOR ME. Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 Title: Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found" Status in obsolete project: Fix Released Status in GVFS: Unknown Status in The Linux Kernel: Invalid Status in udev - /dev/ management daemon: Invalid Status in abstraction for enumerating and managing block devices: Invalid Status in “devicekit-disks” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “devicekit-disks” source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in “linux” source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in “udisks” source package in Lucid: Triaged Status in “devicekit-disks” source package in Karmic: Won't Fix Status in “linux” source package in Karmic: Invalid Status in “udisks” source package in Karmic: Invalid Status in “udisks” package in Arch Linux: New Status in “udisks” package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: In Karmic GNOME, floppies are detected correctly by linux, udev, devkit-disks, and gvfs. However, when clicking on the floppy icon in GNOME, you get a "no medium found" error. Remote reproducer: gvfs-mount -li - When you just start that with no other processes running, you get a correct "volume" for /dev/fd0 ("floppy0"). - When you start it through dbus-launch, you get a floppy0 "drive" instead, and no volume To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit/+bug/441835/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
