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devicekit-disks package

  1. Karmic (9.10)
  2. Bug #441835
  3. Comment #336

Comment 336 for bug 441835

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 441835] Re: Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found"

peter b [2011-09-29 16:24 -0000]:
> does this mean that there is no effort/work done/attention paid by linux
> to fix this issue ?

Looks like it. As I mentioned on the mailing list, I'm happy to review
a patch to fix the automatic unmounting.

> on a personal note that ties in with this - Martin pls, should I still
> hope to see an/any kind of answer to #300 above ?

probing the existence of a floppy will lock up the process for 30
secs, and anything which waits on it (and moreover, it might even
cause locks on the IDE bus, so that other programs/drives lock as
well), so that's the very thing which we need to avoid. I've been
burnt by this too many times to ever want to touch it again..