Bug 459386

Summary: gfloppy does not allow standrad/through formatting of USB floppy
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: ritz <rkhadgar>
Component: gnome-utilsAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 5.3CC: cww, tao
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Description ritz 2008-08-18 10:47:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
standard and thorough format display an error about geometry.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-utils 2.20

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Pop in a USB external floppy disk drive.
2. open my computer and click on "External Floppy Drive".
3. Select format.
4. Select Standard or Thorough (You will see it fail with "Could not determine current floppy geometry")
  
Actual results:
fails with "Could not determine current floppy geometry"

Expected results:
standard or through format option should be grayed out.

Additional info:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150782#c6

"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."
Comment 1 ritz 2009-02-09 20:31:44 UTC 
Created attachment 331359 [details]
patch

This will disable standard and thorough option, if a USB floppy diskette drive
is being used.
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-02-10 03:08:46 UTC 
devack.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2009-03-26 17:12:32 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".
Comment 6 ritz 2009-08-25 16:40:23 UTC 
I would prefer that rather than fixing this, we document this as a know issue.
Comment 9 RHEL Program Management 2010-08-09 19:25:15 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.