I attempted to answer this question, but the status is still marked as
invalid. I am changing this back to "New".
I have just tested formatting a floppy (FAT/Ext2) with gfloppy on Jaunty
and it still fails with the error:
"Could not determine current floppy geometry."
I am able to format the floppy no problem with command line tools such
as mkfs & mkfs.msdos as seen below:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 1424 0 1424 0% /media/disk-1
# I unmounted the drive at this point
ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo mkfs /dev/sdb
[sudo] password for ubuntu:
mke2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
/dev/sdb is entire device, not just one partition!
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
184 inodes, 1440 blocks
72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Maximum filesystem blocks=1572864
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
184 inodes per group
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 29 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt
ubu...@ubuntu:~$ ls /mnt/
lost+found
Please let me know if you need me to provide any more information or if
you get different results attempting to reproduce the issue.
** Changed in: gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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gfloppy could not determine current floppy geometry
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274904
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