WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Basil Chupin]

  On 24/09/10 16:48, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> The first "fix" was to insert "floppy" as a new line in /etc/modules -
>> which went down like a lead balloon in my case.
> 'modprobe floppy'
>
> That should load the floppy driver.
>> Alright, now that I have vented my frustrations accumulated over the
>> past 2 days, does anyone have a REAL clue to make anything-Ubuntu
>> recognise a floppy drive and display the contents of the disc in it and
>> even format the disc? (Having stated this, the suggestion in the
>> bug-discussion is to keep running an earlier version of Ubuntu - I think
>> it is Karmic but don't quote me.)
>>
> After that, insert floppy into drive. Then perhaps do:
>
> 'sudo mkdir /mnt/floppy'
> 'sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy'
> 'ls /mnt/floppy'
>
> To format the floppy with FAT, just do:
>
> mkfs.msdos /dev/fdo

Thanks, Christopher.

This response being written on Maverick Meerkat (Beta #1) which was 
upgraded to latest "stuff" only 1/2 hour ago.

What you suggest above works on Lucid 10.04.1 - but I have to admit that 
I don't know if it is the above which is doing it or the fact that I 
downgraded to udisks1.0.1build1 late last night. In other words, the 
'test bed' has been 'contaminated' and the playing field has been changed.

However, I am now in Maverick and the above does *NOT* work. And in 
Maverick it doesn't appear to be a way of downgrading udisks to what 
NoOp suggests in that bug report. I guess there must be a way but I 
don't know what it is and don't have the expertise to fool around with 
apt-get's various options.

So, I'll put back my Lucid and use that to get the flash file onto to 
the floppy and then go and see if I can flash that BIOS.

Also, see my next reply to Rashkae.

BC

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