Bug 766010

*** Bug 761259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

No answer ?

Alberto Chiodi

Created attachment 549318 [details]
usb-floppy vendor exception rules

place it in /etc/udev/rules.d  with file permissions as other files in that folder and mkdir /media/floppy.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created attachment 549318 [details]
> usb-floppy vendor exception rules
> 
> place it in /etc/udev/rules.d  with file permissions as other files in that
> folder and mkdir /media/floppy.

Thanks, if this really helps to solve the issue, please reassign the bugreport to udev.

gnome-vfs2 has been dead for some time and so is hal. If there are problems mounting the drive in Gnome, it should go either to gvfs or udisks components.

Created attachment 549397 [details]
Added reporters drive - which he could check

Doing some guessing, as I noticed this was made by Sony.

(In reply to comment #4)

I just had too many floppies to check through, so it was too stupid and cumbersome mount/unmount all the time. Spent too much time on this, and I probably will have forgotten what I did when I upgrade Fedora to a newer version. 
Just an amateur, and I got stuck with the "polling" issue - hope someone have a clever idea.

I create in /etc/udev/rules.d file 81-Sony-usb-floppy.rules with the line created by Arne:
ATTRS{vendor}=="SONY*", ATTRS{model}=="USB-FDU*", GROUP="floppy", ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY}="0"
To avoid every problems I rebooted the system and I tested Arne's solution.
It perfectly works for me.
I connect my usb floppy drive and I can read in dmesg:

usb 1-1.3: new full speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[  110.120502] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=002c
[  110.120507] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  110.120511] usb 1-1.3: Product: USB Floppy Drive
[  110.120513] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Sony
[  110.257548] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[  110.259295] usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: Quirks match for vid 054c pid 002c: 1
[  110.259414] scsi8 : usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0
[  110.259514] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[  110.259516] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[  111.274188] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SONY     USB-FDU          7.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[  111.274259] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[  111.274331] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[  111.274388] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[  111.274502] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[  111.274595] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[  111.274685] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[  111.274776] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[  111.274832] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[  111.275657] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  111.354106] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[  137.529017] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 2880 512-byte logical blocks: (1.47 MB/1.40 MiB)
[  137.560993] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[  137.560998] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  137.624954] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[  137.624959] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  137.720892]  sdb

After the insertion of a floppy appear on my desktop the contents of the disc.
At the same time I can see in dmesg appear the line:
SELinux: initialized (dev sdb, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts

N.B.

For this first trial I didn't create directory /media/floppy as recommended by Arne.
Now I can say that it is unnecessary.
My floppy has been automounted in directory /media/4c42-3c87 with this serial number as system usually does for every filesystem (usb or others) with no label

Now: for me I think that my personal problem has been solved by Arne.
For all users: I have to reassign this bugreport to udev as required by Tomáš
Thanks to all
(and Merry Christmas)
Alberto Chiodi

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 770247 ***

Merry Christmas, Alberto

Nice to hear it worked. Also, it is correct that you don't need the mountpoint /media/floppy, as in fact - it is no longer used, because we tell that this drive is NOT a floppy ( ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY}="0" ). In my case, ejecting the floppy cause it to constantly move the reading head to track-0 during the polling. Had it been a scsii drive, then that may make some sense.. It may be different with another drive and software version then mine.

reassigning this bug to udev

*** Bug 770247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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