I use Ubuntu 10.10, 32-bit, computer i.386 I mount the floppy with the command:
(suggested by Seppo Aarnio) udisks --mount /dev/fd0 I Click on the icon that appears on the desktop screen, it opens a blank window I pick up any file (smaller that 1MB, example an image.jpg) and I drop it on the blank window.(Or drop it on the floppy icon) It stay there. Then I check it by openning it with gimp or an image viewer, and it works. I umount the floppy, take it out, put it back again, mount it Then I check it by openning it with gimp or an image viewer, and it works very well. I can erase the file as a normal user. I do all of this as user. Never as root. Then to format the floppy, first I unmount it second, I open a terminal and as root: sudo mformat a: and the floppy is formatted. -------------------------------------------------- NOW the TEST, i use a live cd (ubuntu 10.10)....and I can read the floppy content BUT I can NOT WRITE on it as normal user. I can write in it or erase the files using sudo, like you wrote. -------------------------------------------------- Probably the problem with the floppy recognition and function is the same with the installed Ubuntu 10.10, I have to use a command new to the software of Ubuntu 10.10 in order that the distro recognize the floppy. But for a reason that I don't know the solution for the installed version does not work 100% in the live installation. Maybe it is due to a partial install of drivers in the live cd. Sorry I can not help. 2010/11/10 Torkil Olesen <[email protected]> > Floppy working in a live cd xubuntu 10.10 > > I have tried xubuntu 10.10 from live cd and got a floppy icon on the > desktop. It could be mounted, opened and I could read a file, but not write > (only root permission). > Later I have installed xubuntu desktop in an ubuntu 10.10 version. Here the > floppy could not be mounted, and properties of the floppy drive says 8.9 GB > free ??? > I think this gives one more hint about the bug, which Canonical has not > been able to solve during more than a year. > > On the same Pc I have during a year used Poppy Linux 4.3.1., which > starts from cd, works very fast from memory and have no problems with > floppies. > > -- > Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found" > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in obsolete project: Fix Released > Status in GVFS: Unknown > Status in The Linux Kernel: Invalid > Status in udev - /dev/ management daemon: Invalid > Status in abstraction for enumerating and managing block devices: Unknown > Status in “devicekit-disks” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > Status in “devicekit-disks” source package in Lucid: Invalid > Status in “linux” source package in Lucid: Invalid > Status in “udisks” source package in Lucid: Triaged > Status in “devicekit-disks” source package in Karmic: Triaged > Status in “linux” source package in Karmic: Invalid > Status in “udisks” source package in Karmic: Invalid > > Bug description: > In Karmic GNOME, floppies are detected correctly by linux, udev, > devkit-disks, and gvfs. However, when clicking on the floppy icon in GNOME, > you get a "no medium found" error. > > Remote reproducer: gvfs-mount -li > > - When you just start that with no other processes running, you get a > correct "volume" for /dev/fd0 ("floppy0"). > - When you start it through dbus-launch, you get a floppy0 "drive" > instead, and no volume > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/devicekit/+bug/441835/+subscribe > -- Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for udev. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
