User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20070123 Firefox/2.0.0.1 Build Identifier: I have an usb external floppy drive. Output from lsusb: ID 0644:0000 TEAC Corp. Floppy. When connected to my PC without a floppy inside, a floppy icon appears on my desktop and on thunar side pane. When i click on the desktop icon an error mesage appears saying: Unable to mount "External Floppy Drive": Given device "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_TEAC_TEAC_FD_05PUB" is not a volume or drive When i click "Close", i find myself dragging this floppy disk icon over the desktop. If i insert a diskette in this drive, however, another floppy icon appear (the first one does not dissappear, however and still gives same mistake) and it works just fine. I am able to mount/unmount it. In my opinion, /dev/sda, which is my floppy drive, is being shown as an external device by mistake, for it is not a volume drive. when i insert a floppy into the drive, it is recognized as /dev/sda1, and works ok. But the /dev/sda icon does not dissappear. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.plug in external floppy disk 2.double click on the icon appeared on the desktop 3.click "Close" in error window that popped up. Actual Results: When i move a mouse over the desktop, i find myself dragging a floppy icon. Expected Results: in the best case, no floppy icon would appear until i put a floppy int the drive. Result of hal-device | grep sda block.device = '/dev/sda' (string) linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/sda' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda' (string) Result of hal-device | grep sda1 when a floppy in inserted:
Result of hal-device | grep sda when a floppy in inserted: block.device = '/dev/sda' (string) linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/sda/fakevolume' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda/fakevolume' (string) block.device = '/dev/sda' (string) linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/sda' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda' (string) the floppy disk is /dev/sda too, sorry for the mistake. But still, there are two icons on the desktop and in thunar side pane
Please file a separate bug on the dragging problem as it's a totally different issue. I'm aware of it but I'm not really sure what's causing it.
Post the relevant part of the hal-device output, i.e. the floppy controller, the floppy drive and all associated devices.
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