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Comment 3 for bug 464353

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John (invent-write) wrote : Re: [Bug 464353] Re: The floppy drive will not mount, or see the media it worked fine under 9.04

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