Comment 324 for bug 441835

I have not used the floppy drive in this computer for some time, but in the last two weeks I tried about 15 different disks that I believe all have data in a Microsoft Windows readable format. I have had 10.04 installed several times in the last month on this computer. The image in #1 of Bug #475500 is what I see. I know I successfully used the floppy with 8.04 loaded on this computer. I checked the cables and the drive status light lights briefly when I click Places, Floppy Drive so I suspect the hardware is working. I am currently running 10.04 that was install about a week ago. I have loaded a bunch of software since install so I suspect you would not call this a clean install. I did not attempt to read all of the posts about in this bug, but if you need me to collect some data, please let me know. I am very busy right now so it may take me a few days to get back to you.

A friend suggested using "sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt". I found the floppy data in the "/mnt" folder. I copied a disk full of data to the hard drive and the data appeared okay. The mounted floppy does not show in the Nautilus File Browser and I am a newbie to Linux Terminal command syntax. I discovered I can use "sudo umount /dev/fd0" to unmount the drive so at least I can get the data off the floppies in a pinch, but this is far from ideal.

I still have a camera that writes to floppies and I expect to use it soon so I need to get data off floppies and delete the files on the floppies for reuse in the camera. If you have a better work around for this situation, please direct me to it so I can use it. Thanks for your help.