Comment 2 for bug 330314

Problem has been partially solved by Joe Farruggio on ubuntulinux at yahoo.

I did as he suggested, and can now mount and read floppies, although I still have work to do to format a disc.

Thanks,

Rex Backus

Re: Floppy Drive has been lost & found

Thank you Joe,

Your suggestion was exactly what I needed. after adding "floppy" to
/etc/modules, My Floppy drive reappeared in Nautilus just as it had
previously. I was able to mount and read floppies just as I should,
however I still can't format a disc.

I have been advised that I should 'right-click' the icon on the
desktop and select "format" but that is not an available choice,
neither in active or grayed form.

I have not been able to sort out the correct commands for "fdformat"
and although "Synaptic" tells me that "gnome-utils" is installed, I
can't execute it nor can I find any information neither in "man" nor
using 'on-line help'.

I am beginning to believe that my installation is crippled in some way.

Again thanks to Joe, and thanks too to those of you who suggested
things which I had already tried, and thanks even to those of you who
suggested I should just give up, a practical alternative to some, but
just withdrawing support for some hardware or software that people are
productively using is just "so Microsoft".

Rex Backus

--- In <email address hidden>, Joe Farruggio <jfarrug@...> wrote:
>
> joe Farruggio wrote:
>
> In Ubuntu open a terminal and type
>
> "sudo gedit /etc/modules"
>
> without the quotation marks. A file should open looking something like
> the attached file
> at the end of the file and on a new line add
>
> "floppy"
>
> without the quotation marks
> Save the file and exit the terminal and reboot. After the boot is
> completed go to Places, and select removable media
> You should see the floppy disk icon. Insert a disk and click on the icon

> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> #
> # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
> # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
>
> fuse
> lp
> sbp2
> imm
> floppy
>
>