Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.0) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: GCC-3.4.3 OS: Linux It appears that KIO is failing to detect my 5.25 inch floppy as a 5.25 inch floppy. In the Desktop -> Behavior KCM under the "Device Icons" tab: If I check ONLY 'Unmounted 5¼" Floppy' I get nothing, but if I check: 'Unmounted Floppy', I get two icons, one for the 3.5 inch and one for the 5.25 inch. -- JRT
I'd need more input: 1) Are you using DBUS/HAL? (HAL support must be compiled in, please look at your configure log if you're unsure) 2) Can I take a look at your /etc/fstab content?
Pondering to close this one... I need more information...
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Could you try using /dev/fd0h1200 (or /dev/fd1h1200) in your /etc/fstab ? On some "modern" distro it seems that /dev/fd?h1200 is missing... Just for the record, this bug report looks like a good candidate for INVALID since it's a problem with the underlying system not reporting the floppy disk correctly (not generating the fstab correctly in this case). But I'd like confirmation first...
Well, after one month with no news about this I close it as INVALID since I'm pretty sure I can't do anything about it. 5.25 inch floppies are really uncommon now, and most Linux flavors don't report them as is. They're reported as "floppies" (no 3.5 vs 5.25 distinction anymore).
> 5.25 inch floppies are really uncommon now. This is not relevant. The situation we have is that this is dependent on the "fstab" file, and *that* probably doesn't apply to only floppies. The floppy type is determined by reading the device type. If you use a generic device (e.g. dev/fd1) for the floppy, it appears to use 3.5 inch as a default. This is still a bug, but one that probably cannot be fixed at the present time. So, I would suggest marking it as LATER.
Changing status
Apparently this will require HAL or DBus to work correctly and they are not yet 1.0 so a proper solution will have to wait till later.