I just had to actually use my floppy drive, not just detect it, to generate some driver disks for a windows XP box. I tried using a live CD for Ubuntu 7.10 and an installed 8.10 for comparison purposes.
Of course 7.10 detects the floppy just fine. But also the entire process of accessing the drive and moving files to it in 7.10 works as expected. Where in 8.10 it is still a bit buggy. In 7.10, insert a disk and click on the floppy drive in Places > Computer and a dialog box opens asking you to wait while the drive is loaded. In 8.10 you get an error message that the drive can't be mounted, while in the background, it mounts anyway. In 7.10, when you unmount the drive, the icon in Places > computer goes back to the generic floppy drive icon and label. In 8.10 the label stays whatever it decided to call the contents of the last floppy it read. One function seems to be improved: 7.10 waits to do the actual file copying till you unmount the drive, at which time a dialog box pops up asking you to wait till it's done. This is followed by an "ok to remove media" popup. 8.10 seems to copy the files as soon as they are dragged to the drive, so on unmount, it is ready to remove right away. -- floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid Alpha 4 kernel 2.6.27-2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255651 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
