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Unable to mount floppy drives in Intrepid

Bug #254009 reported by KevinM on 2008-08-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #255651: floppy disk drive not detected (module not loaded) in Intrepid and Jaunty. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	hal (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
Declined for Intrepid by Brian Murray

Bug Description

Using Intrepid A3 64 bit Ubuntu on AMD64 PC.
If I look in places removable media there is no mention of a floppy disk. If I go to terminal and enter mount /media/floppy0 the error is mount: can't find /media/floppy0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. If I look at these files there is no mention of a floppy disk. I've also tried fd0, fd, floppy along with /dev and all give the same result. In dev there is a /fd directory. In media there are only two cdrom directories.
I've also found now that I cannot mount other SATA partitions (both NTFS and ext3). This may be related to the double mount of drives problem bug#251991 (before I got two windows for each partition on my USB pen drive, now I only get one partition showing, Casper-RW no longer is displayed). The USB drive problem has changed since yesterday 31/07/08.

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KevinM (kevbert1) wrote on 2008-08-01:

Please ignore comments about USB drive (my mistake).

In Kubuntu A3 (KDE 4.1.0) I cannot mount floppies via Konsole. In /media however the /floppy and /floppy0 directories exist.

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John Hart (jlhart68) wrote on 2008-08-28:

I have two PC with 8.04 Ubuntu and neither will mount the floppy drives and the floppy drive activity light stays on the whole time. I have tried different ribbon cables, change the hookup for different ways, even got the floppy manufacturer to replace the new drive. On the new PC no floppy shows up in the [Places]>[Computer] and on the rebuilt PC the floppy drive shows up.

My main PC is a AMD Athlon 64 2X (operating at 32), 2 GB RAM, DVD-RW, DVD-ROM, Floppy drive, media card reader, 320 GB HD, PNY GPU.

I have rebuild another PC by installing a new MoBo, case fan, and Power Supply and using all the old drives & case. I get the same floppy situation with this PC also. Floppy light stays on all the time. The unit is an old eMachine with a DVD-RW, CD-ROM, Floppy drive, media card reader, AMD Athlon XP, 1 GB RAM, 120GB HD, D-Link WiFi.

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Zoasterboy (zoasterboy) wrote on 2009-01-14:

This problem was solved for me in this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=911858