Floppy drive stopped recognising media again
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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udisks (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: util-linux
Floppy media recognition was broken in 9.10
This appeared to have been fixed in 10.04 (though I had to add this line to fstab:"/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,
This worked for a while, but yesterday I had to read a floppy, and the system is again failing to recognize the media.
Clicking on "Detect Media" in Nautilus spins the disk for a few seconds, but never lets me mount the disk.
Disk Utility claims "No Media Detected".
I was able to read the floppy on another Ubuntu system, that is a 32 bit system that has bugs in the display driver, so it is pretty much a clean install since the display driver bugs make it unusable. I updated that system to the latest code before attempting to read the floppy.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mount 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 4f08ac62e89ad16
CheckboxSystem: fd6c484c0b5d20a
Date: Sat Jun 12 11:48:20 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: util-linux
Laurence Nagel usefully told me: >Administration ->Users and Groups->Advanced Settings->User Privileges and click on "Use floppy drives"
1. Allow yourself to use the floppy by going to System-
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.