FDD not working in Hardy.

[exploder]

Hardy Alpha 5 updated to 2-28-08 recognizes that my system has an internal FDD but can not access it. I have verified that the FDD and the disk are both in perfect working order.

Nothing happens when I try to mount the drive, the drive does not do anything at all.

I tested the drive by setting the FDD as the first boot device and using an old Win 98 boot disk. The drive worked and could read the disk. The drive just will not do anything in Hardy.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Could you please try mounting from the command line
to see if this is a problem with nautilus or lower
down the stack?

Firstly check that the floppy module is loaded by running

  lsmod | grep floppy

then edit /etc/fstab and add a line at the end that says

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0

then run "sudo mount /dev/fd0" and see if it succeeds.

You should then remove the line from /etc/fstab again
to prevent it interfering later.

Thanks,

James

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[exploder (dcosner)]

James, you instruction got the drive working. I also, removed the line when I finished trying this.

 Sebastien, can you direct me to the pertinent report? I posted back here for now, I did a search for this bug before I created this bug report but may not have used the right key words in my search.

Just trying to do my part to help make this a great release.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to report, it is appreciated.

You can see the report that is the same as yours
at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/188256

and the upstream report at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514135

The title of the other report suggests that it could be a
different issue, so the fact that you did not spot it
is not surprising.

The fixed package should head to Hardy in the near
future, so if you could test it, that would be great.

Thanks for trying to improve Ubuntu,

James

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is written on the webpage and should be mention in the mail comment you got