WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat! - UPDATE

[Chadley Wilson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Basil Chupin
> Sent: 26 September 2010 08:11 AM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat! - UPDATE
>
> On 25/09/2010 22:12, Christopher Chan wrote:
> >
> >> No matter what you try and do - inserting "floppy" in /etc/modules or
> >> rem-ing out the entry for the floppy in fstab - nothing will get the
> >> floppy mounted or its contents accessed until you take the retro step
> >> and install the earlier version of udisks (also see NoOp's response
> >> to me re this and how to install this on Maverick).
> >>
> >>
> > I see the Ubuntu devs are dead set on NOT supporting the floppy.
> > Introducing code to sabotage floppy support is so hilarious. The
> > 'community' seems to be getting out of touch.
> >
>
> I see at least 4 things in this.
>
> The first is that there is no one who is controlling and directing the
> 'community'. Shuttleworth has passed the control of Canonical to a some
> other person (sorry, cannot recall her name) and maybe now the direction
> has been lost - dunno.
>
> The second is that the devs are in fact in La La Land - just like the those who
> decided to come up with KDE4 - and cannot see the damage which was or
> being done to the OS.
>
> The third is that I accept the fact that technology moves ahead and that one
> cannot forever cater for everything. But to put out the crap that one cannot
> test floppy support simply because no dev has floppy drives on their machines
> is just too stupid. If Shuttleworth can fly into space then he surely can spend
> several dollars to provide the devs with pre-loved desktops with floppy drives
> on which to practice on?
>
> The fourth is that NoOp suggested a solution. I installed the old udisks file on
> both Lucid AND Maverick, and doing so works - the floppy is recognised and
> its contents readable. So why not simply install as the default this old version
> of udisks 1.0.1-build1?
>
> BC
>
> --
> I didn't know it was impossible when I did it.

[>] To the OP.
I have read briefly though the mail threads, and regarding you floppy drive, since a floppy drive is 5 1/4 inch, and you want to flash your bios, I assume you mean a 1.44 stiffy drive.
 I find it very strange that a person with your skills cannot take a stiffy disk image and make your memory stick bootable with it to flash your bios.
We have been doing this for years. If you don't have a memory stick, then all I can suggest is that you go and get one. Afterwards, I highly recommend you donate you stiffy drive to your garbage bin.

Why oh why would you want such an unreliable piece of junk in your machine? flashing the bios is not rocket science and if you run Linux you can even do it with PXE boot. No media even better.


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