Comment 260 for bug 441835

In response to Tibor Bősze, comment #253:

>I do not want to suggest that going to the terminal should be the preferred
> way of mounting a floppy. I merely want to state that the command works, and
> one would have to analyze how comes the difference in behavior between
> running this command and clicking the GUI. It is backed by the same subsystem after all.

If I understood correctly, the latest udisks version always reports that "no media is present" in the floppy disk drives.

I suppose that when you click the floppy icon, Gnome asks usdisks if there is media in the drive. And the answer is always no.
The command "udisks --mount /dev/fd0" probably does not do the media check, and that is why it works.

See bug #539515 for the reasons behind the latest udisks patch.