Comment 34 for bug 719013

Roland, as per:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/719013/+attachment/3240047/+files/BootDmesg.txt

[ 2.049071] ata6: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xff08 irq 15
[ 2.057829] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 2.075841] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 2.212746] ata5.00: ATAPI: ATAPI iHAS124 B, AL0S, max UDMA/100
[ 2.212838] ata6.00: ATAPI: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, 0512C105, max PIO2
[ 2.228711] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 2.228817] ata6.00: configured for PIO2

and:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/111351182/UdevLog.txt

KERNEL[18.607167] add /devices/platform/floppy.0 (platform)
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=/devices/platform/floppy.0
DRIVER=floppy
MODALIAS=platform:floppy
SEQNUM=1680
SUBSYSTEM=platform

and:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/111351181/UdevDb.txt

P: /devices/platform/floppy.0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/platform/floppy.0
E: DRIVER=floppy
E: MODALIAS=platform:floppy
E: SUBSYSTEM=platform
E: UDEV_LOG=3

P: /devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0
N: fd0
E: DEVNAME=/dev/fd0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY=1
E: MAJOR=2
E: MINOR=0
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: UDEV_LOG=3
E: UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY=1
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=18644554
UDEV_LOG=3

the kernel seems to have recognized the floppy drive, and in turn, your drive was mounted at /dev/fd0 .

Could you please provide the full results of the following terminal command:
sudo apt-get -y install fdutils && superformat -v 3 -B /dev/fd0 HD

Should we not able to get this working, we would definitely want to have the upstream kernel tested as per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/719013/comments/10 . Please disregard the request to test Quantal.

As well, as a potential WORKAROUND, Fedora notes that one may format LS-120:
http://linuxmanpages.net/manpages/fedora15/man8/floppy.8.html