USB floppy drives aren't formatted correctly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
If you connect a USB floppy drive, insert a disk, and pick the Format... option off the menu, the the disk is not formatted.
What it does instead is just do a mkfs on the disk. This is correct for devices like USB keys or hard drives, but floppy disks have to be low-level formatted before you can make a filesystem on them. In particular, if you buy a blank floppy disk then it needs to be low-level formatted before use.
There is a tool, ufiformat, that will low-level format a USB floppy drive. It's in Ubuntu. (Disclaimer: I am the Debian maintainer for it.) This can be used to format the disk before mkfs is called on it.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 6 00:14:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
affects: | nautilus (Ubuntu) → gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
Hi,
Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better.
I'm not quiet sure if what you submitted is really a bug, problem or an idea to impreve Ubuntu. I'm going to check in the Bugsquad list.
As soon as I get some information I'll be posting it here.
Regards
malev