WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat! - UPDATE

[Christopher Chan]

> No matter what you try and do - inserting "floppy" in /etc/modules or 
> rem-ing out the entry for the floppy in fstab - nothing will get the 
> floppy mounted or its contents accessed until you take the retro step 
> and install the earlier version of udisks (also see NoOp's response to 
> me re this and how to install this on Maverick).
> 

I see the Ubuntu devs are dead set on NOT supporting the floppy. 
Introducing code to sabotage floppy support is so hilarious. The 
'community' seems to be getting out of touch.