No media in drive

[NLS45]

I have loaded FC12 alpha 64 bit. I am pleased to see the floppy icon again the the "Computer" folrer, in "Places" in the "File browser" and in the "Disk Uility"

If i click on teh floppy icon in Computer (with a known disk in he drive) the drives LED comes on it makes noises and a window then says "opening floppy drive"
then I get a the message "unable to mount location, no media in drive"

If I go to "places" and in the drop down menu click on floppy the light on the drive comes on and then nothing.

If i go to "Appliocations/System tools/file browser" and click on the "floppy" just nothing happens at all. no light on on the drive and nothing.

If I open Appliocations/System tools/Disk Utility and click on the "Floppy Drive" item it shows in the right of the screen

FLOPPY DRIVE
Unknown size
No media detected
SMART is not available
/dev/fd0

No media detected
to Format or edit media, insert it into the drive and wait a few seconds
"detect media""

If I click on "detect media" the drives light comes on and that is that with no change shown in the status ie i still shows 'no media"

I have done some checks;

In the folder /dev/. There is the following in fd0 entries;

fd0360
fd0720
fd0800
fd0820
fd0830
fd01040
fd01120
fd01440
fd01600
fd01680
fd01722
fd01760
fd01840
fd01920
floppy
floppy-fd0



I then put an entry in the /ect/fstab file, to mount it manually, for the floppy, set up a folder for it as mnt/disk did the mount command and the floppy mounted and I can do a "ls" to list the files on the floppy in a terminal.



Can anyone suggest anything as to where to go from here? The last time I did not have any troubles with the floppy was in F8.

It may seem srange but I need to have the floppy working because of one particular package and set of test equipment. I can get everything else to work on the linux platform with this gear and since it is so expensive to change the test gear getting the floppy to work is by far the best option. I am sure there are others who need it as well judging by the comments in various places.

I also need to use the floppy to load a particular pacakge into virtualbox. I can not use n image drive because of copy protection and I need to change the floppy disk during the installation.

These are the reasons why I am so keen to get the floppy working

[AdamW]

I'm sorry, I've had your message in the other thread open intending to reply for ages, but just haven't had time - it's been a really crazy week around here, I've been up past midnight most days working on the release blockers.

I think probably the best thing to do at this point is file a bug. Throwing a dart, I'd say file it on DeviceKit-disks; at least if that's wrong, the maintainer will know where would be right.

I suspect this doesn't get much testing any more; I haven't had a proper onboard floppy drive for more than five years now and I suspect it's the same for most other testers. Point of fact I don't remember the last time I *saw* a floppy

[NLS45]

Adam, thanks.

I appreciate the effort and do under and how busy you al must be. I see looking around today the someone else is having the same problem in Ubuntu so it is not, I think a Fedora issue persay.

I can not see anything in the log files but then I perhaps are not looking at all the logs. What I do see in an entry in the messages log file if I try to access the floppy without a disk in it. but if I put a disk in and click the icon or mount or any of the other places to try there are NO log entries I have found.

I will look at entering a bug but I really would like it to get fixed. If not dare I say it I will have to go back to the "W" which frankly I hate with a passion and always have

[NLS45]

Adam, thanks.

TYhough I would start a new tread because it was I felt a new topic

I appreciate the effort and do under and how busy you al must be. I see looking around today the someone else is having the same problem in Ubuntu so it is not, I think a Fedora issue persay.

I can not see anything in the log files but then I perhaps are not looking at all the logs. What I do see in an entry in the messages log file if I try to access the floppy without a disk in it. but if I put a disk in and click the icon or mount or any of the other places to try there are NO log entries I have found.

I will look at entering a bug but I really would like it to get fixed. If not dare I say it I will have to go back to the "W" which frankly I hate with a passion and always have

[AdamW]

even though it's probably upstream, Red Hat developers *are* the upstream for DeviceKit-disks, so that's still a good place to start

[NLS45]

nothing reported yet on this issue.
Any one any ideas I whatsoure code files I should try to look at.

For me this is a show stopper

I know it may not be flaover of the month and every one is busy.
Same thing seems to be in Suse but the disk actually mounts in spite of the error messages
Ubuntu semms to have tjhe saem problem from what I have seen in the various forums.
No answers seem to be anywhere however

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Please just file a bug report in http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/DeviceKit-disks