GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 529519
Places->Floppy Drive does not display an error message when you click on it and no floppy disk is in drive
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:26:26 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/206856 "Steps to reproduce: 0. Assume there's no floppy disk in drive. 1. Click on Places->Floppy Drive. 2. The floppy drive LED lights on for a moment. Expected behavior: An error dialog box is displayed with the following error message (or similar): "Unable to mount location. No media in the drive". Actual behavior: Nothing happens! There's no error message about trying to access to a non-existing disk. Interestingly, if you go to Places->Computer and click on Floppy Drive inside the Computer folder, the message error is displayed correctly."
I had the opposite experience with gnome 2.32 on openSuSE-11.4: If I go to Places->Computer and click on Floppy Drive inside the Computer Folder there is always an error message: "Unable to mount location..no media in the drive", whether there is a valid disk in the drive or not. Moreover if a disk is inside the drive, the above message appears whether the disk is mounted or not. ( I of course can mount the disk on the command line with the command "mount /dev/fd0u1440"). Also the mdir command from mtools works perfectly if a disk inside the drive, showing that the message "no media in the drive" is in error.
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