** Description changed: There MUST be a serious bug in the setup for floppy drives in ubuntu. - I don't have much experience with linux or unix, but I have a lot of experience with DOS and floppy drives from PET in 1979, Apple II, AMIGA, and different PC's with DOS and Windows versions. During 30 years I have NEVER got problems with floppy drives as in linux. The problems were there 10 years ago, when I tried Open Linux, and they exists in ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10. - I can see from questions, that many people have had problems, and I have tried some of the proposals given in the answers. They did not work on my system, but I have found a solution, which works for me in ubuntu in an upgraded version 9.10: The command in terminal: mount /media/floppy0 works, and I get an icon Floppy0 on the desktop. Although it works, the disk utility (Palimpsets) tells unknown size and no media in floppy disk drive at /dev/fd0 : It seems to check the drive; the light shows up, but nothing happens ?? - In an old machine I have an Imation 120 MB drive, and this one is recognised at once by ubuntu 9.04 and works, but not so good as in Windows. - At a new PC with upgraded ubuntu 9.10 I can use a usb disk drive - also - without problems, but at both machines the build-in floppy drives gives - problems. I have dual boot, and all drives works well in Windows. + At a newer PC with upgraded ubuntu 9.10 I can use a usb disk drive - + also without problems, but at both machines the build-in floppy drives + gives problems. I have dual boot, and all drives works well in Windows. - - I don't ask for workarounds. In all the systems I have known, the floppy disk drive works at the ever first setup! + I don't ask for workarounds. In all the systems I have known, the floppy + disk drive works at the ever first setup! So the conclusion must be, that there is a serious bug in ubuntu, and I just do not understand, why it has not been solved long ago.
-- setup of floppy drive have big problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485684 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
