Comment 36 for bug 1054414

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 1054414] Re: VMWare exports a floppy controller, resulting in a phantom floppy drive.

Rafael Keller Tesser [2012-11-20 20:33 -0000]:
> I don't believe this is a VMWare related bug. I have the same issue on a physical machine.
> I have floppy disk support enabled in the BIOS setup, but don't have a floppy drive installed.

Right, that unfortunately happens rather often, and is the reason why
we can never probe floppies automatically. (And lead to basically
unfixable bugs like bug 441835)

Martin
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