Bug 157154 – hal does not work with "regular" floppies anymore

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Bug 157154 - hal does not work with "regular" floppies anymore

Summary:	hal does not work with "regular" floppies anymore

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	hal (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	David Zeuthen
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Reported:	2005-05-07 14:39 EDT by Michal Jaegermann
Modified:	2013-03-05 22:43 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-05-07 15:56:03 EDT
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2005-05-07 14:39:18 EDT

Description of problem:

For a built-in floppy the following entry in /etc/fstab is created during
boot:

/dev/fd0                /media/floppy1          auto   \
                                     pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

but putting a floppy in a drive does not even cause an attempt to
rescan so it is not mounted.  Just no activity registers anywhere.
Mounting that floppy from a command line is not a problem and a corresponding
icon does show up on a desktop.

I checke on x86 and x86_64 installations and results are the same.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hal-0.5.1-1

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2005-05-07 15:56:03 EDT

Sorry, we can't really poll legacy PC-style floppy drives. If we did, it would
make a lot of physical noise. So automounting won't work for these, sorry. It
didn't work in FC3 either.

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