Public bug reported:
Adam Niedling closed #152832 because it related to solved issues in 7.04
with someone else's floppy drive.
I still have problems in 8.04, with two separate bugs:
First, #244304 is already filed, and relates to external USB floppy drives,
probably in general. Those work on a hardware level, but for mysterious
reasons the GNOME components try to mount them as if they were going to contain
a Microsoft Logical Disk Manager partition table. When that fails, the
(unidentified -- GVFS?) component does not try to look for a FAT filesystem on
the disk.
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Second, as I tried to explain in #152832, I cannot read any floppies
under 8.04 (kernel 2.6.24-19) with a normal oldschool non-USB plain-old-
regular floppy drive hooked up to the floppy controller of a particular
x86 motherboard with a particular chipset, when that same hardware (same
computer) can properly read floppies under FreeDOS, etc.
I first observed this bug (and mentioned it in #152832) with kernel
2.6.22-14 back in 7.10. At that time the computer was crashing often
with symptoms of corrupt memory. That problem turned out to be a memory
voltage issue. Now that all my DRAM is preserving its contents, I have
a very stable system, but still no floppy support under Ubuntu.
Adam asked if I was "a floppy expert." I hope I'm not what passes for
one these days. Adam, if you recall, x86 boards contain chips from
various manufacturers (commonly referred to as the "chipset(s)"), and
this particular motherboard is a Foxconn model "A690GM2MA-8KRS2H" (yes,
a mouthful), using the "AMD 690G" chipset, which was a less verbose way
of indicating it has an ATI/AMD RS690 graphics chip (probably
unimportant) and an ATI/AMD SB600 "south bridge" containing the legacy
floppy controller. This last bit may be useful information, but the
rest may narrow it down if there are SB600 users who have a floppy
without a problem! ;) Maybe a couple hundred lines of dmesg and lspci
would have been easier to read! :)
Debugging output follows.
[Also, if anyone knows of a service which can put 200 floppies on a CD at low
cost, that would be an acceptable workaround!]
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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The Floid's Floppy Issues Tracking Bug (8.04)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259513
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