Andy Whitcroft wrote: > The device seems to be being detected correctly and udev informed as we > do get a /dev/fd0. So it seems either the device does not have > appropriate permissions, or the notification not being passed on to > higher layers, or indeed those layers may not be taking appropriate > action. Therefore adding tasks for udev and for gvfs to see if they can > detemine why. Logs are below for the udev components. > > ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) > Status: Triaged => Invalid > > ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) > Assignee: (unassigned) => Andy Whitcroft (apw) > > I think the layers that would do something are just not in there to do it. I think they did USB support and forgot about floppy by ribbon cable as an internal device. I think the developers were thinking more NOTEBOOK and less about desktop and older laptops.
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