270521 - file:///a:/ does not work unless floppy has data on it

Status: NEW

(Core :: Networking: File, defect, P5)

Description

[Aaron Slunt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041114 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041114 Firefox/1.0

My floppy drive is a:

file:///a:/ will not work at all unless there is some data on the disk. While
this isn't a really big deal, Firefox should still list the contents of the disk
(which is blank, but meh).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Insert an empty floppy disk into your floppy drive (or format if required)
2.Go to file:///[your floppy drive here] ex: file:///a:/
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing worked.

Expected Results:  
Displayed "Index of A:/"

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Same for Seamonkey.

Comment 2

[Aaron Slunt]

A warning is displayed when there is no disk in the drive, saying there is no
disk in the drive (not sure if this was the case before), but the index still
doesn't show up for a blank one >_>

Comment 3

[benc]

blank or unformated?

Comment 4

[Aaron Slunt]

Unformatted or no disk shows an alert saying to insert a disk, blank disk gives
nothing.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Aaron Slunt]

Still reproducable in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5)
Gecko/20050925 Firefox/1.4 ID:2005092506

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner

Comment 8

[Aaron Slunt]

Can confirm on the linux side now. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008062219 (Gentoo) Firefox/3.0

/dev/fd0 points to /mnt/floppy. WHen pulling up /mnt everything's listed. If I pull up /mnt/cdrom w/ no cd in, the directory is still listed (with .keep). If I try to pull up /mnt/floppy, nothing at all happens. No listing, no nothing. ls -la /mnt/floppy shows it has a .keep file as well. Changing to Os->All as this isn't windows only (minor though).

Comment 9

[benc]

Aaron:

Please file a new bug.

The way floppy drives works varies by OS, but from Necko's perspective (or probably NSPR, actually), it shouldn't be the same. If this is broken in linux, even if it is the same behavior, it is probably a different problem.

os -> xp.

Comment 10

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258