Comment 311 for bug 441835

Wow, pretty disappointing that Ubuntu is unable to correctly deal with a real floppy controller and phantom device properly.

...But that useless "Floppy Drive" entry in Nautilus sure looks spiffy and well polished - and that's what counts, right?

Yes, I fully understand the above comment was "unhelpful", but honestly, when floppy drive media cannot be properly mounted from the GUI in an OS circa 2011, it makes me feel less than "helpful". Of the 10 machines active on my network right now, 9 of them have built-in floppy drives. Admittedly, 6 of those are CLI only servers, but if I wanted a CLI centric UI on my desktop boxes, I would not have installed Ubuntu on them.

*sigh*

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