Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> said:
No, it means that (unless this was recently fixed) you have to
modprobe it
manually (e.g. from rc.local) because nothing bothers trying to modprobe it
for you anymore. IMHO, this is really broken, but the bug reports about it
were ignored or declared NOTABUG.
It is very irritating, since I only use floppies when I really need to,
and usually I've upgraded the system (I typically do clean installs)
since the last time. I always have to stop and manually configure the
floppy drive again.
For a while, USB floppy drives got correctly configured when you plugged
them in (a udev rule was added to get /dev/floppy links and ownership),
but that was removed somewhere along the line. I own the package for
formatting floppies in USB drives (ufiformat), and it is also irritating
when I go test it for new releases. With changes over time, I don't
know how to get the device nodes with the correct access for the desktop
user anymore, and I figure if somebody went to the trouble of removing
the udev rules, there's not much point in asking to have them added
back.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.