Laurence Nagel usefully told me:
1. Allow yourself to use the floppy by going to System->Administration->Users 
and Groups->Advanced Settings->User Privileges and click on "Use floppy drives"

2. Use the old version of udisks () by going to
System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager, find the udisks
package, mark udisks for reinstallation, click on Package->Force
Version, and select the 1.0.1-1build1 version (which is the old
version). Then click on apply to finish the installation.

3. Remember to unclick udisks whenever Update Manager wants to install
new updates, or you'll get the new version and floppy disks won't work
anymore!

After the old udisks is installed (and the machine is rebooted), when
you insert a floppy a cute little icon comes up on the desktop and in
Nautilus (and on Disk Mounter if you have that installed). Left clicking
on the icon and select Mount Floppy Disk will put an icon in Nautilus,
and then you read, write, and format the floppy just like any other
drive.

To which I will add:
Package>Force Version 
will prevent it being over-ridden.

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Floppy drive stopped recognising media again
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