[Bug 447489] [NEW] [Karmic] unable to access floppy drive

[seasoned_geek]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: dosemu

unable to access floppy drive in dosemu.  No drive lights activate, but
receive this error.

C:\>dir a:
Error reading from drive A: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
Error reading from drive A: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
Error reading from drive A: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
Error reading from drive A: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
Error reading from drive A: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
Error reading from drive A: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
Error reading from drive A: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
File not found. - 'a:'
C:\>dir b:
Remove diskette in drive A:
Insert diskette in drive B:
Press the any key to continue ...
Error reading from drive B: DOS area: sector not found
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
File not found. - 'b:'   

Floppy works fine when booting DOS.

roland at logikaldesktop:~$ ubuntu-bug dosemu
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 2940, errno = 11
roland at logikaldesktop:~$
roland at logikaldesktop:~$
roland at logikaldesktop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release:        9.10
roland at logikaldesktop:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct  9 14:08:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: dosemu 1.4.0+svn.1828-2ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
SourcePackage: dosemu
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686

** Affects: dosemu (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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[Karmic] unable to access floppy drive
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