Comment 294 for bug 441835

@ Martin,

the sad part is that the new, potential future ubuntu users are immediately/(or later when discovered) discouraged using it because of lack of support for the so called 'too old' devices; they will prefer instead using ms win.

Martin, pls do not look at what follows as an intrusion into your good efforts in resolving this issue; contrary, pls look at it strictly from future ubuntu users thoughts and minds re open source and its benefits vis-a-vis for pay proprietary os's

AND, not least at the current users community

you have the code related to this; I wrote code before quite extensively (for sure not in the latest and greatest languages but the basics are still there with little changes ) ; I may be wrong in this but pls check my thoughts out and take a look at the floppy drive/device probing procedure code and maybe introduce a timer in device call loop/iterations and based on the feedback (y or n) obtained introduce an if/else decision followed by a goto statement to the corresponding line of code that will either configure or not configure the device (or maybe call another file/s with the conf procedures). pls tell me what's your opinion - will it do the trick ?