Review on 💾 Toshiba PA3109U-1FDD USB External Floppy Disk Drive by Bruce Garner

I have had absolutely no issues or issues with this Toshiba PA3109U-1FDD external USB drive running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I'm also using XP Windows in Virtualbox 4.3.10 and haven't had any problems either. Here I will share some simple information to make this drive immediately available in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which worked great for me. ***** ***************************** Stolen from AskUbuntu. Here is the actual answer to get the floppy drive working. Open a terminal and login as sudo Open gedit as sudo Open and edit this file: /lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks.rules find this section in it (it's at the very bottom. You can use "search" in gedit toolbar and find "pc floppy" you get there ################## pc floppy drives # KERNEL=="fd*", ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY }= "0" # USB drives # SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}=="08", ATTRS{bInterfaceSubClass}=="04", ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY}= "0 " # ATA Zip drives # ENV{ID_VENDOR}=="*IOMEGA*", ENV{ ID_MODEL}= ="*ZIP*", ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY_ZIP}="0" # #### ################### ########################### ## Replace all "1" with "0" as I do in 3 areas (Your script will have "1", I'll show the corrected part) Looks like this: ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY}="0" Reboot PC, and support You will have floppy disks Note: Floppy disks will be used when insertion DO NOT automatically open a window, they were created beforehand! My Computer" and double-click on it. Don't forget to unmount it like a thumb drive (or thumb drive) or your next disk you insert won't be mounted. Also, don't forget to unmount the disk before the Eject reboot (internal) as your computer will try to boot from it, which can be very annoying.