Got a few folks using usb floppies, which used to work with kde-4.5.x+hal, and not so much anymore with kde-4.6.x.
OK, crazy, works on some machines and not others. An office colleague f14 desktop: didn't work my f14 desktop: works? device notifier pops up: "External Floppy Drive" my f15 laptop: didn't work
More testing: seems the drive gets recognized ok, if it is plugged in with media inserted. else, not. Inserting media after the fact doesn't change anything.
adjusting summary, but at least seem to have a workaround for now.
I think this is a direct consequence of udisks' "no polling" design. Floppy disk insertion can generally only be detected by polling, which udisks upstream refuses to do. We'd need an additional (optional) polling daemon (we could call it "upolld" or something) or polling inside KDE (ugh) to support floppies properly. The reason this works when you plug in the USB device with a floppy already inserted is because then you get a USB "device connected" event, and when handling that event, udisks sees that there's media inserted and offers you to mount it. But of course that workaround doesn't work for internal floppy drives, and it's a bit silly even for USB ones. The way this worked in HAL is that the hal-storage-daemon polled removable devices.
No, I believe it's a similar problem to what I fixed for some mobile phones, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262808; unfortunately I have no (USB) floppy drive to test with
Ping, does it still happen in F15/F16?
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