WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Rashkae]

Basil Chupin wrote:

> Now, seeing it there would seem that there must be something wrong with 
> my floppy(ies) which is why I busted my nuts trying to figure out the 
> problem.
> 
> But no, the installation recognises it but the OS won't let you use it.
> 

Yes, unfortunately, I was unable to test on a current Ubuntu install. 
However, reading more posts in that original bug report, I see that 
someone made a rather fascinating discovery.  Whatever system is 
supposed to be auto-mounting the floppies is actually unmounting them, 
when that entry exists in the fstab.  According to that poster, if you 
remove the fstab entry, then you should be able to mount the floppy (the 
long command way.)... not really a good solution overall, but would 
allow a one off like creating a flash bios disk.