This change was done upstream to prevent UDisks1 from polling for floppy drive so often but broke mounting floppies while at it. http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30283 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338185 --- src/device.c +++ src/device.c @@ -4485,7 +4485,8 @@ update_info (Device *device) } else { - if (g_udev_device_get_property_as_boolean (device->priv->d, "ID_CDROM_MEDIA")) + if (g_udev_device_get_property_as_boolean (device->priv->d, "ID_CDROM_MEDIA") || + g_udev_device_get_property_as_boolean (device->priv->d, "ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY")) { media_available = TRUE; }