Ubuntu and Floppy Drives

This is pathetic:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/5826 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/107843.

Translation: Oops. We forgot to test a common use case but it works in the old release and in the development release but we are not going to bother to take the effort to fix it in the most recently released version. We don’t care if this is broken in the branch most of our users are using even if it was reported months ago and the fix looks fairly easy to implement. That is some serious suckage right there for a “desktop” environment.

Excuse me while I go back to trying to figure out how to use fdformat when the usual device nodes for specifying the capacity and type of floppy are no longer created in /dev.