Accessing a floppy drive reliably panics the system, at least in the
Parallels Workstation and (as others reported) VirtualBox VMs.
See this screenshot: http://yoyodyne.ath.cx/tmp/2009.08.15-21.43.22.bmp
I can easily test fixes here, if needed.
Sascha
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