Comment 91 for bug 255651

My BIOS has the floppy drive selected, so it should know that a floppy drive is present. Also my OS has loaded the floppy kernel on my desktop (the computer with a floppy drive), The same OS has not loaded the floppy kernel on my laptop. That indicated to me that the OS detects the floppy drive, and when found loads the kernel for it, but the OS cannot for some reason access it.

I know floppy disks are "old" technology, but it should not be that much of a problem to get them to work with a modern OS. Of course as soon as I can access my floppy disks, I will move the data to CD-R's and be done with it. I just want to get my old data files (image files, documents, and other files)

Since I have two desktops that exhibit the same lack of being able to access the floppy drive, one PC being over 5 years old the other newer, at least one of them should be able to access the floppy drive.

I am sure the older Linux distros could access the floppy drive, so why can't that access be recreated?