Comment 44 for bug 1054414

Thanks! But.I disabled the floppy in my BIOS and the system no longer tries to mount the non-existent floppy. However,I can see a definite advantage for those who's BIOS do not provide such an option.

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 From: martyfelker <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 2:59 PM
Subject: [Bug 1054414] Re: Tries to automount floppy drives

The following code fro within the Ubuntu 12.10 VM (or Linux Mint 14 for
that matter) is:

echo "blacklist floppy" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-floppy.conf
sudo rmmod floppy
sudo update-initramfs -u

This immediately (don't need a reboot)removes the bogus floppy icon from
the launcher and also /dev/fd0.  You may also sudo rm -fr /media/floppy*
if you wish.

See discussion

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/426323?tstart=0

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Title:
  Tries to automount floppy drives

Status in “udisks2” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Quantal system attempts to display non-existent Floppy Drive.  See
  attached screenshot
  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1054414/+attachment/3330112/+files/Screenshot%20from%202012-09-21%2018%3A52%3A01.png)

  1) The Home folder displays a floppy drive and none exists.  Clicking on the image results in a message box"
         "Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Command-line `mount "/media/floppy0"' exited with
         non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device"

  2) The Unity Launcher displays a floppy drive.  Clicking on image
  causes nothing to happen.  Image canot be closed or unlocked from
  launcher.

  BTW - Running on VMWare with Open-VM-Tools

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: gvfs-backends 1.13.9-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Sep 21 18:43:01 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120615)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: gvfs
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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