Bug 180328

Summary:	Cannot use floppy in KDE4
Product:	[Unmaintained] solid	Reporter:	Marek Greško <gresko>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kevin Ottens <ervin>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	frapell, kevin.kofler, rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Marek Greško 2009-01-11 14:54:23 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

There is no way to work with floppy in KDE4. The floppy does not show up in New Device Notifier. If I create a desktop icon for floppy. I can mount it, but I cannot open it in dolphin and also there is no way to umount the floppy device.

Comment 1 Kevin Ottens 2009-02-28 11:35:10 UTC

Is it still valid? On my desktop my floppy drive is listed in Dolphin by default so WORKSFORME. Granted it's not in the new device notifier but it maybe doesn't belong there.

Comment 2 Marek Greško 2009-03-02 09:15:05 UTC

Yes it is still valid. I do know if it belongs to device notifier. But I cannot use it in doplhin anyway. When I create desktop icon, it shows up also in dolphin. But I do not see file on my floppy. When I click floppy in dolphin it only print message it is already mounted and it is not switched to floppy directory. Also there is no way to umount the floppy.

Comment 3 Kevin Ottens 2009-03-02 09:47:55 UTC

When I asked if it was still valid I meant "is it still valid on KDE 4.2.0" (you reported against 4.1.3), pointing that out as my post was very ambiguous (sorry about that). :-)

So is it still valid in a full KDE 4.2.0 session?
If yes could you please provide the exact error message you get? (making a dolphin screenshot and attaching it is fine if it's localized in english)
If yes please also attach the content of your /etc/fstab so that I can take a look.

But really I've no idea how to reproduce that it just seems to work for me. Maybe that's a fedora specific thing? I can't really tell.

Comment 4 Marek Greško 2009-03-02 13:34:02 UTC

Last time I tried it it was on KDE 4.2.0 and it was also an issue. Now I tried it and it works. But I still cannot umount device. Right click in dolphin only enables to hide device. Not to umount.

Comment 5 Franco Pellegrini 2009-11-13 20:14:12 UTC

I have just tested this on KDE 4.3.2 and you still can't umount the floppy from Dolphin. I could mount it though with no problems.

I had to create a desktop icon so i can umount it, but i wasn't able to mount it from here, an "only root can mount" error message was shown (but again, from dolphin the floppy gets mounted fine)