Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
If you connect a USB floppy drive, insert a disk, and pick the Format...
option off the menu, the the disk is not formatted.
What it does instead is just do a mkfs on the disk. This is correct for
devices like USB keys or hard drives, but floppy disks have to be low-
level formatted before you can make a filesystem on them. In particular,
if you buy a blank floppy disk then it needs to be low-level formatted
before use.
There is a tool, ufiformat, that will low-level format a USB floppy
drive. It's in Ubuntu. (Disclaimer: I am the Debian maintainer for it.)
This can be used to format the disk before mkfs is called on it.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 6 00:14:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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USB floppy drives aren't formatted correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476013
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