floppy drive not working in ubuntu 8.04 64 bit

I have the same problem on my 32 bit Ubuntu 8.04 that you have on 64 bit. I am also using AMD, namely Athlon XP 2000+ and only have one internal HD. Everything else seems to be fine with Ubuntu, which I am using on this machine because it would not install Windoze XP pro for some reason, but I am very happy with it otherwise and glad to see that someone has finally gotten linux to be more competitive with M$. I don't need the floppy very badly, but would like to have the option, so if anyone out ther has a fix or workaround, it would be greatly appreciated if you would post it here. Thank you very much.

I had a similar problem. I use AMD and 8.04 x64. When I clicked on the floppy drive, it said something like "unable to mount location". The workaround for me was entering this in a terminal window:
gnome-mount -v -b -d /dev/fd0
You might have to use sudo, I don't remember. It'll say a bunch of stuff, and might give you some errors, but it should still mount it after a few seconds. Just wait for it. When you want to unmount, or change floppy drives, use this:
gnome-umount -v -b -d /dev/fd0

In my case, at least, the floppy drive seems to run, but Ubuntu or Open Office don't seem to find anything on it, despite supposedly being able to read the file format written to it (by Windoze XP pro if that matters). Is this a hardware issue? Does anybody at Ubuntu plan to address the underlying problem with some sort of hotfix so I don't have to go back to those early days of PC's (which is why I avoided Linux until Ubuntu came along and made it more user friendly? I suspect it's something simple and may be easily fixed if someone with Linux programming expertise put their mind to it. Is this problem widespread? Where do I go to report it and possibly find out more about any progress on a patch? Thanks.