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Re: [LUG] Floppy drive

 

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:45:52 +0000, "Neil Winchurst"
<neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:23:28 +0000
> Samuel Toogood <sam_toogood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > /dev/           /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> > > 
> > > It is the last line that makes me wonder. Do I need to change the first bit to 
> > > /dev/floppy or some such? At the moment if I insert a DVD/CD into the computer 
> > > it sees it without any problem. If I insert a floppy the computer does nothing.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Neil Winchurst
> > > 
> > Exactly the same thing happened to me this week. Yes, change it to
> > /dev/floppy and it should work. Incidentally, which distro are you using?
> > 
> > Sam
> Kubuntu Edgy
> 
> Neil
> 
Aha! I'm using Ubuntu Edgy. This is a bug, and has already been
reported. See https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/71861 . You'd
have thought it would have been noticed before release, but at least it
should be pretty trivial to fix.

Sam
-- 
Samuel Toogood


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