Comment 259 for bug 441835

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Tibor Bősze (tibor-boesze) wrote : Re: [Bug 441835] Re: Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found"

I believe the situation is not as hopeless as some might feel. As I have
stated i bug #599915:

Workaround: Mounting the floppy with the command "udisks --mount /dev/fd0"
completes successfully, the mount shows up in /etc/mtab and the GUI also
displays the icon, the floppy can be browsed etc, everything works. But
there is no other (graphical) way to mount the floppy with udisks of version
1.0.1-1ubuntu1. At least I have not found any way to do so.

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.

Addressing usability concerns, one can create a simple script with error
handling / friendly popup messages, and put an icon onto the Desktop for any
user who is not comfortable with commandline. Of course this is not more
than a workaround.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
   Tibor