Comment 1 for bug 485684

I have reached a further step in analysing the bug:

I have installed the program StartUp-Manager in ubuntu 9.10, and with this program I have made a bootable Rescue Grub floppy disk.

It worked in my build-in floppy drive (although I had not mounted the drive), and the floppy disk can boot my computer in the same build-in floppy drive.

This tells me, that it is very unlikely, that there is any problems in the drive or in the driver for floppy drives.

The solutions given in answers to problems with floppy drives is also commands, and if it were problems in drive or driver, commands would not help. My drive works with the mount command.

The problem seems to be the in the interface and especially in the GUI interface.

In Filehandling (translated from Danish) I have a possibility with the Danish name: diskettedrev (floppy disk drive). If I click with left mouse button (one or two times) nothing happens. If I use the right button, I get the possibilities of: OPEN - nothing happens; or FIND MEDIA - the light of the drive turns on, and there is heard a bit noise - but nothing more.

  The computer knows, that there is a drive, but cannot handle it from the GUI interface. It is the same, which I already have mentioned happens in disk utility (Palimpsets). It knows, that the drive exists, and where it is, but cannot handle it.

I can open my disk with a click on the icon: Floppy0 on desktop, when I have mounted the drive in /media/floppy0 .

Why can't the GUI interface open the floppy disk with a click?
I my experience, (I think), it has been able to do it a few times, but not now! This unstableness might give a hint of, where to find the bug.