[Bug 593140] Re: Floppy drive stopped recognising media again

[DAP]

Every time I go to use the floppy disk, I find it broken and need to
hack my system to fix it.

I just did a clean install of 11.04, and the first thing I found was
that, as Ian pointed out, my user did not have permission to access the
floppy drive. But giving my user access did not solve the problem. I am
unable to downgrade udisks because the package->force version is grayed
out, and I can't figure out a way to let synaptic know about older
versions.

Could this PLEASE be one of the things that is always tested on every
version update?

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Title:
  Floppy drive stopped recognising media again

Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: util-linux

  Floppy media recognition was broken in 9.10
  This appeared to have been fixed in 10.04 (though I had to add this line to fstab:"/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0", and add a directory for the mount point)
  This worked for a while, but yesterday I had to read a floppy, and the system is again failing to recognize the media.
  Clicking on "Detect Media" in Nautilus spins the disk for a few seconds, but never lets me mount the disk.
  Disk Utility claims "No Media Detected".

  I was able to read the floppy on another Ubuntu system, that is a 32
  bit system that has bugs in the display driver, so it is pretty much a
  clean install since the display driver bugs make it unusable. I
  updated that system to the latest code before attempting to read the
  floppy.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: mount 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 4f08ac62e89ad166a1e0b05f95495253
  CheckboxSystem: fd6c484c0b5d20a2f1cd036ef0f63975
  Date: Sat Jun 12 11:48:20 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: util-linux

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