Floppy not working on Ubuntu

[Rabbie]

Hello there,
I have just installed Ubuntu on my system. but my floppy drive is not working. Whenever i put floppy in the drive, it do not respond. The floppy is fine and working on windows XP and vista systems. Can anyone tell me, what is the problem here?

Thank you all.

[Dr. V]

Follow these steps for floppy Activation on Ubuntu:

• Run Update Manager & Reboot
• Run (Alt + F2): gksu gedit /etc/modules
• For msdos usage - Add the line to the end of the list:

  floppy

• Save the file & Close document.
• For Linux Native (ext2) usage - Add two lines to the end of the list:

  #To load floppy module
  floppy

• Save the file & Close document.
• Reboot the system
• Run :

  sudo mkdir floppy0
  sudo chmod g+rwx floppy0
  sudo chmod o-rx floppy0
  sudo modprobe floppy
  sudo mount /dev/fd0 floppy0

• Again Reboot
• Go to Main Menu : System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manger =>Quick search =>type floppy =>Check =>fdflush =>Mark for Installation =>Apply =>Reboot
• To activate Floppy Formatter - In a Root Terminal , type : sudo gfloppy (enter)
• To mount floppy : Right Click on Floppy Drive - Mount - in Nautilus (File Browser). Do not use Double Click.
• Reboot if floppy unable to mount or fail

[SalVatore]

You should probably seriously consider not using floppies anymore. I haven't used floppies for years. Just burn everything on a CD-RW.

[jesse]

There seems to be a problem with mounting removable media. Try: mount /media/floppy0
Try to updating you version of pmount. Enable the following dapper repository in /etc/apt/sources.list only once. But disable the Dapper Repo after fix.