Comment 20 for bug 441835
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| John (invent-write) wrote Re: [Bug 441835] Re: [Karmic] floppy is not working (Ubuntu 9.10) | #20 |
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Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> The device seems to be being detected correctly and udev informed as we
> do get a /dev/fd0. So it seems either the device does not have
> appropriate permissions, or the notification not being passed on to
> higher layers, or indeed those layers may not be taking appropriate
> action. Therefore adding tasks for udev and for gvfs to see if they can
> detemine why. Logs are below for the udev components.
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Andy Whitcroft (apw)
>
>
I think the layers that would do something are just not in there to do
it. I think they did USB support and forgot about floppy by ribbon cable
as an internal device.
I think the developers were thinking more NOTEBOOK and less about
desktop and older laptops.