Comment 692 for bug 441835

It's a darn shame that "the powers that be" don't care to fix something that is still of a great deal of importance to a few hundred thousand people - *buntu users. I recently added a floppy drive to my machine. It didn't work, but I just figured there was some package that didn't get loaded. So I found what I could with the fdutils package, and eventually found a workaround including a requirement for manual (menu select) mount and manual (menu select) umount, thanks to helpful users in kubuntuforums.net.

I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 - which is a LTS release - and, yes, direct support for floppy drives is lacking. I realize that someone, apparently having a great deal of power, would rather say WORKFORME than to offer up a solution that might actually help those who otherwise like and enjoy the (alleged) stability and utility of a long term support Linux distro. At least an answer of WONTFIX would have been an honest, as well as consistent answer.

I'm glad it works in PJSingh5000's platform, and I look forward to a later Kubuntu LTS that actually works the way that Kubuntu used to work before floppies were randomly pushed aside. And that WORKS FOR ME. Thank you.