On Friday 24 March 2006 06:37 pm, Paul Dufresne wrote: > Is there a known problem detecting floppy disk? Yes, there has been a bug reported on Launchpad (32599). The problem is that for whatever reason, the "floppy" module isn't inserted by default. Try doing "sudo modprobe floppy". If that works, add "floppy" on its own line in /etc/modules.conf . --Dane