WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat! -- PROGRESS REPORT

[Basil Chupin]

On 25/09/2010 15:53, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 25/09/2010 14:24, NoOp wrote:
>    
>> On 09/24/2010 08:05 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>      
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>        
>> Short answer as I'm off working sailing races at the moment:
>>
>>      
> Many thanks, NoOp.
>    
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> I'll do all this later today or early tomorrow.
>    
OK, the old udisks (build1) downloaded and installed on Meerkat.

Works like a charm. Every floppy recognised and contents displayed.

And I have locked this version in Synatic so that it won't be upgraded 
into a regressive state....

(If it is this simple, why bother to keep providing upgraded versions of 
udisks for Lucid and Maverick when they don't work? Why not install 
build1 as a default?

There has to be a catch in there somewhere...... or is it simply too 
logical to do this?)

BC

-- 
I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.