Comment 13 for bug 384579

This seems to be a T23 laptop. Does this model have the option of a hot-swappable drive bay or expansion unit? In some older laptops there can be a bios virtualised floppy device which allows the floppy to be added and removed live without the OS knowing. It is worth checking the BIOS settings to see if any options exist for hot-swappable drives and/or floppies. If so could you report what you find here. Also did this work on a previous Ubuntu release, if so which, in a previous release we had issues with the floppy _not_ being recognised correctly which would have masked this issue.