Comment 10 for bug 441835

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John (invent-write) wrote : Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10)

Antec wrote:
> I wonder if grub2 boot-reloader miss floppy module in the right way
> already on boot? And i don't see the floppy at all in /etc/fstab or
> /etc/mtab, but the green diod on yhe floppy blink when the computer
> boot.
>
>
I don't know what the developers did on this one. I sent in the bug
report. From what I can tell they just left out the software that makes
a internal floppy work. Someone at Ubuntu wrote: that internal floppy's
are "rare" clearly they must having been thinking 10" notebook and USB
and not about the hundreds of millions of computers that still have and
use a floppy. Even if the "floppy" is added into fstab and modules it
still does not work. The expert at first started out on it, but I think
he gave up, and for us we are not going to upgrade to 9.10 and will keep
using 8.10 and 9.04. (*8.10 works really good and has been flawless)
Hopefully they will put in a fix that will go in an update. I kind of
get the feeling that the reason that 9.10 boots so fast is because it is
not really doing a proper look to see what "plug and play" is in the
system but that is just a guess, one thing for sure they did cut a
corner and that was a floppy. It could be related to IDE but they will
have to figure it out. Everytime I send in another bug on it I get a
letter back about no new bugs so for now I just kind of gave up, as only
one of our computers have the problem with 9.10 the others with 8.04 all
work fine. I guess a lot of people will be changing back to 9.04 or
8.10 if they don't fix it. Millions of people still use floppy.