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  1. Bug #441835
  2. Comment #71

Comment 71 for bug 441835

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Henry Wertz (hwertz) wrote : Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working

     "Me too". Using Places->either floppy drive, the light blinks for about a second. Places->Computer then selecting a floppy, the light runs for a second then "Unable to mount location -- no media in the drive"
      Yes, "either floppy drive" -- my parents still have some 5.25s around and so they've got one of those dual drives.
     opening a terminal and running "sudo mount /dev/fd0" or "sudo mount /dev/fd1" works just fine, and unmounting via GUI then works too.