floppy disks :O

Pali Rohár pali.rohar at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 10:46:16 UTC 2014


2014/1/22 Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com>:
> ahoys
>
> I was wondering if anyone still has access to a floppy drive and disk
> and could try to give kfloppy a test run.
>
> there's [1] which indicates that it has problems but short of having
> anyone to actually test this and investigate I don't see a way to get
> this resolved. if we cannot find someone to handle it it may be
> worthwile to kick the package out.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kfloppy/+bug/593117
>
> HS
>
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Hi! Month ago I successfully formatted one 3.5 floppy disk with
kfloppy on kubuntu precise. I did not see any problem. Maybe user who
reported bug is not in floppy unix group? By default only root user
and floppy group have write access to /dev/fd0.

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