Bug 155574

Summary:	Floppy disk drive not correctly set up
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Martin Schlander <martin.schlander>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	Beta 6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	lshal output for my laptop lshal output for my desktop

Description Martin Schlander 2006-03-06 21:00:49 UTC

My floppy drive does not "work" - I've installed beta6 on both my desktop and my laptop - the issue is the same on both machines.

The installation probes for floppy drive.

After installation there is no mention of a floppy drive in /etc/fstab (unlike in 10.0).

There is a floppy drive posted under "My computer" (KDE) but clicking the icon gives an error message.

There is no /media/floppy/, which is the mountpoint used for floppy on 10.0

There is however a /dev/fd0 - and if I manually mount that device it works just fine.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-03-07 14:29:03 UTC

> There is a floppy drive posted under "My computer" (KDE) but clicking the icon
> gives an error message.

What message does it give you?
AFAIK for these devices will no longer get added to the fstab (exchangable devices), this is getting handled by HAL and KDE/Gnome.

Comment 2 Martin Schlander 2006-03-07 17:13:03 UTC

The KDE/Konqueror error message I get when clicking floppy icon in "My computer" is the following:

Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist

Comment 3 Michael Gross 2006-03-08 11:38:13 UTC

Please attach the output of `lshal' - that there is no entry in the fstab is normal as mentioned.

Comment 4 Martin Schlander 2006-03-08 12:15:36 UTC

Created attachment 71733 [details]
lshal output for my laptop

Comment 5 Martin Schlander 2006-03-08 12:16:34 UTC

Created attachment 71734 [details]
lshal output for my desktop

Comment 6 Martin Schlander 2006-03-08 12:19:22 UTC

both my laptop and my desktop (both 10.1b6 w/ KDE) have the exact same error - therefore I've attached both lshal outputs - see comments #4+#5.

Comment 7 Michael Gross 2006-03-08 15:44:20 UTC

Reassigning to the KDE-maintainers.

Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2006-03-08 16:24:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152078 ***