[wplug] Unbuntu + Floppy?

Ed Stewart edstewart1 at verizon.net
Fri May 20 13:20:27 EDT 2011


I haven't had a problem with the floppy here with 11.04, don't use it 
but it mounts. I also have a usb floppy drive and it mounts of both my 
laptop and desktop. Maybe the drive you have is bad.

On 05/20/2011 12:53 PM, Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
>
> I need to set up a PC for embedded Linux development.  I have been 
> using Fedora for years with very few problems.  People have been 
> telling me how great Ubuntu is so I thought I would give it a try on 
> the new setup.  Last week or so I posted requests for help concerning 
> the display.  Fixed that by getting a newer PC.
>
> Now I find that I cannot mount a floppy drive (yes I know.... But I 
> still need one).  I see that fstab is correct and have tried to 
> manually mount the drive.  I get no error messages, the front light 
> blinks and that's it.  Umount tells me that it is not mounted.  Tried 
> replacing the hardware.  Tried 11.04 and 10.04 with the same results.  
> I cannot even add a drive to the top menu bar.
>
> However if I boot from the 10.04 CD the floppy mounts.   Anyone else 
> have floppy drive problems with Ubuntu?
>
>
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