Comment 15 for bug 36249

(In reply to comment #13)
> > As Comment #9, I think pmount and pmount-hal are the bad guys. As a test, I
> > swapped the file names and everything (floppy, usb devices and cd) mounted via
> > nautilus (not auto-mount, just clicking on it)
>
> yes, renaming pmount to pmount-hal solves the problem. Obviosly, i don't know is
> this is the better solution.

This is really, really evil and will likely break other things. I will fix this
in pmount-hal soon. Until then, please just mount the floppy manually with

  mount /floppy