>From my analysing of the problems in setup of floppy drives follows an
intuitive understanding of what happens:

I think, that it works well in a totally new installed version, and from 
programmers viewpoint everything is OK.
Then I comes with habits from Windows. I open the floppy disk and use it, but 
later I remove the disk without unmounting it and insert another one. From the 
viewpoint of Linux Operating System this is a fatal error, and when I have done 
it a couple of times, my use of the floppy drive is automatically blocked!

>From my viewpoint this is a bug. I think, I should have a warning from
the GUI interface, when I remove a floppy disk without unmounting, and I
think, there should be an alternative possibility in the GUI for
removing the blocking of the floppy drive.

I do not think, I can do more relating this problem. I must ask, if one with 
sufficient knowledge of system and source code would please check my theory, 
and if it is correct, then make changes in the GUI interface.
If ubuntu should become a desktop solution for common users, I think it is 
important to solve problems of this kind.

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A much bigger question is the necessity of mounting and unmounting in ubuntu. I 
think the implementing goes back to the use of big tape wheels mounted 
vertically. It was of course a fatal error to start the wheel without having 
mounted it safely, but this situation does not exist any more!

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setup of floppy drive have big problems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485684
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