Write to floppy?

[Ari Torhamo]

Hi,

This thread brings back to me the bad memories of trying to work with
floppies in Ubuntu. Almost always there was some problem, strange
behaviour, etc. Typically floppies wouldn't mount or unmount, or I
couldn't read or write on them. It was common that when I tried to
refresh the floppy window in Nautilus, the old content just stayed on,
whatever I tried. 

I also wonder why is the new content written on only after the floppy is
unmounted. It happened often to me that I saved some files on the
floppy, went on with other things and later grabbed the disk without
remembering that it wasn't unmounted it yet. Why not just do the writing
right away, like Windows does?

These things happened with several versions of Ubuntu (not Feisty) and
on different computers. I haven't used floppies in any other Linux
distributions, so I don't know if the situation is different there. When
I had these problems, I many times booted to Windows to see if they
occured there too. They never did, except for a couple of times when the
floppy was bad. When a new version of Ubuntu came out, I used to think
that surely the problem is fixed now - bug reports existing and all -
but it never was. I finally stopped using floppies alltogether, because
these things made me so frustrated.

I'm afraid this post may be rather useless, but I had to let these
things come out. I feel much lighter now and I think the wounds are
beginning to heal :-)

Not to leave a wrong impression here, I like Ubuntu very much and keep
recommending it to people around me. Thanks developers and everybody
involved!


Cheers,

Ari