Comment 8 for bug 242488

I tried to reproduce this using Xubuntu Hardy Heron, 8.04.1. After inserting the floppy disk in the drive, if you do NOT double-click the icon on the desktop, the floppy disk does not mount and you cannot save to it. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar-volman/+bug/199005

Double-clicking the icon on the desktop caused the floppy to be mounted. I could then save using AbiWord and using drag and drop from the desktop. Documents used were created in AbiWord and saved to my hard drive. I was able to do this using files saved as .abi (Abiword documents) and .doc (Microsoft Word) files.

Since the floppy disk does not automount, it is necessary to mount the drive by double-clicking on it before you can save to it.

NOTE: If you right-click on the floppy drive icon, left-click "eject volume", you must logout and login to use the floppy drive again. You also get an error: Unable to eject the volume, which is filed as a separate bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar-volman/+bug/199005

 $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

 $ apt-cache policy abiword
abiword:
  Installed: 2.4.6-3ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.4.6-3ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.6-3ubuntu3 0
           500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status