Bug 123826 (IT_73057) - [RHEL3] gnome-utils floppy disk format utility should support USB drives
Summary: [RHEL3] gnome-utils floppy disk format utility should support USB drives
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: IT_73057
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-utils
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-05-20 19:32 UTC by Gary Lerhaupt
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:07 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2005-08-22 21:06:44 UTC
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Description Gary Lerhaupt 2004-05-20 19:32:28 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; 
H010818; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
The current version of gfloppy is hardcoded to only allow formatting 
of /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1.  If the "format floppy" menu option in 
gnome will continue to point to gfloppy, then gfloppy should be 
extended to allow formatting of USB floppies.  There is a trend to 
move away from including floppy drives in systems, and so many are 
instead using USB floppies.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on system tools -> floppy formatter
2. notice how it only allows formatting of /dev/fd0
3.
    

Additional info:
Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2004-05-21 20:22:03 UTC 
Internal RFE bug #123936 entered; will be considered for future releases.
Comment 2 David Balažic 2005-04-21 12:34:23 UTC 
While you're at it, drop in support for IDE floppies too.

I have an LS-120 as /dev/hdd
(and Fedora Core 4 test2, gloppy only lists /dev/fd0)
Comment 4 Marty Wesley 2005-05-26 06:48:14 UTC 
PM ACK for U6
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