Comment 376 for bug 441835

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In , Zeuthen (zeuthen) wrote :

(In reply to comment #22)
> I doubt it's a problem with udisks2.. in fact, last I checked, all the parts in
> the stack (kernel, udisks2, gvfs, nautilus) worked fine with floppies, see
>
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/palimpsest-gvfs-udisks2-pc-floppy.png
>
> But it's not something I check very often and in Fedora we never automatically
> load floppy.ko even if the hardware is there. I'll check Monday when I'm in the
> office - don't have any floppy drives or disks here :-)

It works fine except for the fact that there's a bug in mount(8)... basically 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt' doesn't work but 'mount -tvfat /dev/fd0 /mnt' does. I've reported this bug to Karel Zak (the util-linux maintainer).