Comment 19 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:
> The company i work on have 103 Ubuntu computers and 80 of them are
> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS the rest is 9.04. We have four to test the new Ubuntu
> 9.10. If the 9.10 not work properly can we not upgrade any more
> computers and we must wait and look on next LTS version and test them
> very hard. OpenSUSE 11,2 have also problems with floppydrive there not
> working ether .
>
> This code is working like Francisco Canabas wrote but a new floppy
> module is started between the standard floppy module? In case no other
> alternative are availability.
>
> sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 -o umask=000
>
>
We have 9.04 and 8.04 LTS, did not like 8.10 for some reason I recall it
had prolbems too.
However 9.04 worked fine and I think what we will do is put it back onto
the hard drive with 9.10 and just stop using 9.10 for a while.
Apart from the Open Office versions being different that has not much
effect on functionality as both work fine and I kind of think the older
one that is still using firefox 3.0.15 and google chrome as we kept the
old firefox and did not let it update to 3.5, and it has the new chrome
it kind of seems more stable and faster once it is up and running. So
there is a lot to be said that is good about 8.04 and 9.04. 9.10
otherwise is pretty good, but I think up and running 9.04 is a better
program and 8.04 is far more stable and proven dependable.