This is a very old bug, related to Hoary 5.04, that is not supported
anymore.
Intrepid floppy issue has been fixed in Jaunty Jackalope.
In Karmic there is a floppy problem being examined bug #441835.
So closing this.
** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress = Won't Fix
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What I don't get is why the floppy module is not automatically loaded in the
Intrepid kernel. I understand that virtually no laptops and consistently fewer
desktops include floppy drives nowadays, but it's a 76 KiB driver, for the sake
of the FSM! I think that it should be loaded by default in
In intrepid with Gnome, adding module floppy (with modprobe or as an
inserted line in /etc/modules for permanent use) seems not to be enough.
When you click Places Floppy the drive rotates for a while but the
floppy does not get mounted.
Xubuntu intrepid recognized floppies after I changed the
All you must do is, open a terminal and type in sudo modprobe floppy.
That should fix the problem.
** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New = In Progress
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special device /dev/fd0 does not exist
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** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid = New
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Not able to add floppy disk. Device /dev/fd0 does not exist in /dev
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