Wolfgang and Ulrich, > Hi Ulrich, > > thanks for the hint! I have commented out the line in autoexec.bat > which loads the UIDE.SYS cdrom driver. Now there is no problem > accessing the floppy images.
This sounds to me as if VirtualBox is NOT posting the "media change" bits for a floppy-disk in the BIOS, when the floppy-disk is changed. Needless to say, UIDE requires those bits! Nor is UIDE designed to use any other way of detecting a floppy-disk change (if any such way exists), since the "media change" bits have been part of all PC BIOS programs from about 1985 onward. I suggest you "Have another LONG chat!" with the creators of Virtual Box, who seem to live in their own world and seem to IGNORE a lot of pre-existing PC hardware conventions "Whenever it suits them!". Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
