AMD64 Karmic won't auto mount floppy media
Hi everyone, I'm new to this so bear with me. A friend & I have similar builds, both now running AMD64 Ubuntu V9.10 & both are not reading our floppies. ie we have floppy icons under "Places" which if we click on, with floppy in drive, the FDD LED comes on for short time, then goes off, they appear to try a read but nothing else happens.
If I go to "Places", "Computer", right click "Floppy Drive", click "Mount", LED lights briefly, Error Message Window comes up "Unable To Mount Location - No Media In The Drive", but there is!
Both of our FDDs & floppies work fine with BIOS & DOS environments & removable USB flash drives auto mount in Karmic with no problems.
I have read all I can find in the answers & tried most all suggestions but I still can't access a floppy using Nautilus as User.
I can Mount a floppy disk through Root Terminal using "Mount /media/floppy0" & access its' contents using Nautilus as Root & then Unmount the floppy but I greatly dislike this messy & dangerous solution.
I know FDDs are going to be obsolete eventually but at present some of us still have things we want to do using floppies.
Can anyone throw some new light on this issue?
Thanks, Poppa Smurf.
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