[Bug 441835] Re: Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found"

[peter b]

Martin, nice to hear from you. after the above little digression back to
the task at hand

....'so at most this could be an USB drive; no idea whether these are
broken as well.'....

I have an eeePC900 and eeePC1000  both with SSD's as well as an acer
laptop with amd64; all have the main lucid release udisks version
installed NOT the regression to ....build1 (none of these 3 have any
floppy drive/controller built in). the usb floppy drive that I'm using
is a Sony model MPF82E and it was approx $25.

as you know, the usb floppy drives are enumerated and mapped to /dev/sdX
and they work flawless on all 3 pc's - they can boot off floppy
diskettes, can make recovery floppies etc with no problems whatsoever.
the bios on all 3 pc's above support booting off floppies if esc entered
at post.

on the desktop pc's where the floppy drives are connected to the mb
floppy controller (this is the typical basic office pc found in probably
99% of companies and homes), the situation is a different , only the
regression to udisks .....build1 enables and configures properly the
device so that it can be used. my guess is that when the the mb
interfaces are probed, the installed/uninstalled devices are enumerated
and configured something is going amiss. the floppy drives from what I
remember have a 34 pin interface, different than ide that I think has
40. from dmidecode I get this

Port Connector Information
	Internal Reference Designator: FDD
	Internal Connector Type: On Board Floppy
	External Reference Designator:  
	External Connector Type: None
	Port Type: 8251 FIFO Compatible

as said in my #228 so far so good - my pc did not manifest any 'side
effects' after the regression.

just a humble opinion Martin,  I feel that every effort should be made
to get  this issue solved, as I said, once and for all, doesn't matter
how hard it is and what it takes. I say this for the benefit of the
community and ubuntu. It is v v hard to accept not only by me but I fell
by a v sizable part of the community, that proprietary os's can do it
and linux has problems with a basic device such as a floppy drive.

Martin, I'm always here and help you with testing and debugging whenever
needed, just let me know.

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Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found"
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