GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 150782
gfloppy does not allow formatting of USB floppy
Last modified: 2009-11-09 12:03:53 UTC
Distribution: Slackware Slackware 10.0.0 Package: gnome-utils Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.6.1 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Dropline Systems Synopsis: gfloppy does not allow formatting of USB floppy Bugzilla-Product: gnome-utils Bugzilla-Component: gfloppy Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Description of Problem: i trie to format my USB floppy, but gfloppy wont even start, because it does not find any floppy devices Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Start gfloppy with a USB floppy attached to system Actual Results: you get an error stating that you dont have any floppy device Expected Results: it should be possible to format a USB floppy device How often does this happen? allways Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-08-22 12:24 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "gnome-utils". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Previous reporter was asegil@online.no. Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Yes, gfloppy is hard coded to using /dev/fd0 so it wouldn't be able to format this type of floppy drive.
Changing to "enhancement."
Created attachment 32832 [details] [review] Add hal support to gfloppy This patch adds (optional) hal support to gfloppy, which should allow for floppy drives beyond the standard /dev/fd0. Like usb floppy drives As I do not own a usb floppy drive, can anyone who does own one confirm that this works for them?
I committed this patch today. If anyone has a usb floppy drive and can confirm that it now works, let us know so we can resolve this bug.
Assuming this works, before closing the bug we need to make sure this is added to the documentation, either by changing this bug to reflect this final need or by opening a new bug specific to the docs.
I managed to find a usb floppy drive, and after a few little tweaks gfloppy can now detect and format floppies in usb floppy drives :) It cannot, however, do low-level formatting or bad block scans on these devices, since those actions are controlled by the hardware itself. So we will need to disable these options when a usb/whatever floppy drive is selected.
Still no docs I assume?
Is gfloppy supposed to work with all USB drives or just USB floppy drives? Because http://www.gnome.org/start/2.10/notes/rnwhatsnew.html seems to suggest that it works with all USB drives. Anyway it doesn't detect my USB memory stick and it would be nice to be able to format those too.
Created attachment 128326 [details] [review] patch to disable standard and thorough option, if a USB floppy diskette drive is being used. This will disable standard and thorough option, if a USB floppy diskette drive is being used.
thanks for your bug report. GFloppy has been removed from the GNOME Utilities since the 2.28.0 release, and replaced by the GNOME Disk Utility.