Comment 77 for bug 441835

if you install the voice to text out of the software center you will see
that kttsd will open floppy...
It is a program written for kubuntu but works on ubuntu, (it has other
bugs but it does open floppy0...

Martin Pitt wrote:
> John [2009-11-27 18:31 -0000]:
>
>> Could it be something as simple as... it being called "floppy" in some
>> commands or code and "floppy0" in others that is causing this? As some
>> KDE programs are able to mount and read it as floppy0 while it still
>> cannot be read or mounted as floppy?
>>
>
> KDE is unrelated to that, since in karmic it uses hal. hal does its
> own probing thing.
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