floppy drive not available in 8.10

Bug #291525 reported by R Stewart
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Bug Description

Have Ubuntu on one machine and Xubuntu on another. Both showed available floppy drives in 8.04 but on update to 8.10 both disappeared and seemingly unavailable.

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Victor Marin (vms368) wrote :

Yes, it happens to me too... There is not floppy device.

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Ross Kuipers (rosskuipers-gmail) wrote :

Yes, here as well. No floppy in Gnome, and unmountable. dd gives device in use.

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Damiano Dallatana (damidalla) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 286522, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug.
Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Damiano Dallatana (damidalla) wrote :

Error: duplicate of bug 255651 - any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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