Comment 5 for bug 10362

(In reply to comment #4)
> Um...is anyone actually working this or should we just wait for the next release
> and hope for the best?

Since you didn't provide any details about how it failed, we can't guess what
your problem is, but it sounds like it may be different from the one originally
reported in this bug. I suggest that you contact one of the forums or mailing
lists and ask for help diagnosing the problem, and report your problem here if
you discover that it is a bug. Perhaps your drive is not /dev/hdb, in which
case you need to use a different name.

Regarding the original problem in this bug report, it seems that perhapl the ATA
floppy driver isn't sending the necessary hotplug events to arrange for its
device nodes to be created