Please describe the problem:
gfloppy giving error: "Could not determine current floppy geometry" when trying to format floppy. Tested on two machines with internal and external (USB) floppy disk drives. New floppy disks. Both fail.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Plug in Toshiba PA3109U-1FDD USB floppy drive (0644:0000 TEAC Corp. Floppy)
2. Insert disk
3. Unmount disk manually (gfloppy does not do this on your behalf)
4. Start up gfloppy
5. Select to format disk with default configuration


Actual results:
gfloppy could not determine current floppy geometry

Expected results:
Disk gets formatted. No error gets displayed to the user.

Does this happen every time?
This is bug is consistently reproducible.

Other information:
Notes: I have tested formating the disk with command line tools (mkfs, mkfs.msdos) which works. I have also attempted to use gfloppy as the root user, where only using "DOS - Quick" mode works and I am able to format the disk. All other modes as well as attempting to format as ext2 gives errors.

Originally reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/274904

Personal thought: gnome-utils has not changed in several cycles. It's not because floppy disks and modems are no longer in mainstream use that we should forget about them. This program worked previously, It should should be fixed and the code should be expanded (or replaced with something else) to include nautilus integration; to format any type of inserted media.