The floppy drive will not mount, or see the media it worked fine under 9.04

[John]

Binary package hint: yelp

The floppy is showing in etc fstab and in modules but it won't mount. I did find an old line of code
sudo mkdir /media/floppy
sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy -t vfat -o umask=000 that will open the floppy but it shows the floppy icon diferently as something else and it only works once, so in a sense it acts like there are two. As the real floppy icon says no media.
somehow the hardware, floppy, is not detected thus it cannot be mounted, even though the light comes on when it tries.
A long time ago and earlier version did this, but then after an update it went away....
I know some think people don't use floppys but MILLIONS still do.
Other than that all these other bugs listed DON'T appy every thing else works fine. It could be maybe the IDE and Floppy ???
Hmm I don;t know, but it is a little disappointing but in time I am sure you will solve it.
Thanks, apart from that every thing else works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 30 00:46:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1815): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1940): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1901): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:2003): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[angelo f valente (angelofabrino)]

Exactly my case,floppy works only through command line,in the Slackware fashion.
Maybe due to grub/partition/overlapping issues.
Same happened in a previous upgrade Dapper-->Hardy, but then it affected USB DRIVE as well;in this particular case the solution to floppy was like yours mkdir /media/floppy -->sudo mount /dev/fd0,but the USB issue remained...
Since my HD partitions weren't regular and /tmp had its own space elsewhere, I wasn't able to visualize what I had with sudo cfdisk! The solution was a fresh install. Not pretending this as a solution,just for consideration.
As for the grub/partition/overlapping issues above I imagine the system will get the obvious one and leave floppy,perhaps USB go undetected.
Good luck
angelo f valente

[John (invent-write)]

angelo f valente wrote:
> Exactly my case,floppy works only through command line,in the Slackware fashion.
> Maybe due to grub/partition/overlapping issues.
> Same happened in a previous upgrade Dapper-->Hardy, but then it affected USB DRIVE as well;in this particular case the solution to floppy was like yours mkdir /media/floppy -->sudo mount /dev/fd0,but the USB issue remained...
> Since my HD partitions weren't regular and /tmp had its own space elsewhere, I wasn't able to visualize what I had with sudo cfdisk! The solution was a fresh install. Not pretending this as a solution,just for consideration.
> As for the grub/partition/overlapping issues above I imagine the system will get the obvious one and leave floppy,perhaps USB go undetected.
> Good luck
> angelo f valente
>
>
Thank Angelo,
I did a clean install as the previous was an upgrade however it still is
not working, it did the same thing for a time in version 9.04 was
working then disappeared and then after an update it started working again.
So I hope at some point in time the experts figure it out. When I run
cfdisk it shows everything as ext3 but gparted shows ext4 no floppy
listed. Not sure about that either. Apart from all that everything
else seems to work fine,

Have a great safe day,

John

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

Could you please open a terminal and give this command:
sudo apport-collect -p linux 464353

This retrieve useful information about your system.
Thank you.

[John (invent-write)]

AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: j 1544 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0x502c0000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9221 A1'
   Components : 'HDA:83847680,80860606,00103601'
   Controls : 22
   Simple ctrls : 15
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4103cfe3-a80a-4e4b-ad2f-6c4bca8a0acf
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic root=UUID=bd989797-036e-4d82-bd5a-585357cb865c ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
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 linux-firmware 1.25
RfKill:

Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
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