Comment 21 for bug 441835

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

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> As the device is seen by udev and correctly created during the early
> boot it does not seem to be a bug in the kernel. It may be a
> permissions issue with the fd drive device as made by udev, or
> alternatively an issue at a higher level:
>
> KERNEL[1258912797.217841] add /devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0 (block)
> UDEV_LOG=3
> ACTION=add
> DEVPATH=/devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0
> SUBSYSTEM=block
> DEVNAME=fd0
> DEVTYPE=disk
> SEQNUM=1006
> MAJOR=2
> MINOR=0
>
> Will add tasks for those levels for confirmation.
>
> ** Also affects: gvfs (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Also affects: udev (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
What I did not try but it might work is get the program titled "floppy"
out of the older 9.04 repository and see if it will load in 9.10 As
9.10 does not have that in it's repository, and the previous versions did.