Thank you for looking into this. I checked backed up syslog messages when the computer still ran Jaunty. Jaunty also detected a floppy drive while booting but I can't remember it showing up in Gnome. Would it help if I checked how the computer is wired internally? Maybe the fd controller is connected to something else.
Possibly related and with more log files: bug #459945. ** Attachment added: "lspci.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34447107/lspci.txt ** Attachment added: "dmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34447108/dmesg.txt ** Attachment added: "udevadm.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34447109/udevadm.txt -- Places menu has entry "Floppy Drive" but no floppy drive in computer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459950 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs