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Floppy drive with Workstation 14

I just upgraded to Workstation Player 14 on Linux and now all my existing VMs are missing their virtual floppy drive.

They had one virtual floppy drive assigned to B: (Floppy 2 in the VM's preferences) but it just doesn't appear anymore in the Win VMs. The VM's toolbar reports that the drive is connected, no messages/problems show up whatsoever. The floppy's image file still exists in the proper spot and is readable for the current user.

Further investigation revealed that in the VM's BIOS, both floppy drives are set to Disabled and the option is grayed out, so I cannot change it back to 1.44MB 3.5" drive. Am I missing anything? Can anyone reproduce this? All the VMs ran fine on 12.5.4

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Adding drive A: as well fixes the problem (floppy0.present = TRUE), even though it's not connected.

This wasn't necessary on previous versions of Player/Workstation.

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Adding drive A: as well fixes the problem (floppy0.present = TRUE), even though it's not connected.

This wasn't necessary on previous versions of Player/Workstation.

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