Hi Jack, I am so happy that there is something like FreeDos available, even for free, that I can play around with. As I usually pretty soon run into very strange challenges for (any) software - some people say, that every computer that sees me for the first time, simply crashes, simply for this fact - I do not want to expect from the developers that they care about my issues by changing their baby. If there is a way to work around the issue, that's fine for me. Of course it might be nice if the developers might take care of this issue, if there really should be a significant demand, but I am already happy with the fact that FreeDos is running on my notebook in a VirtualBox, so that I do not need to set up a dedicated machine.
In the actual case, I needed to install an old prgram (GEM and an APP (!!! :) for it from several floppy disk images. So it is no problem for me to (temporally) disable the UIDE driver in order to get my stuff done. Wo -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sat, 19 May 2012 14:46:56 -0700 > Von: Jack <gykazequ...@earthlink.net> > An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox > > Eric, et al: > > >> 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. > > > > So maybe there is a problem with floppy change signalling > > versus caches - would be interesting to know whether it is > > sufficient to keep UIDE but run UIDE in no-cache mode, and > > if "lbacache flop" (lbacache with floppy caching enabled) > > would work correctly with floppy changes in virtualbox. > > UIDE does not include logic to "ignore" a diskette drive. If one or > two are present, UIDE will always cache them. I never expected any- > one would need (or want!) to run diskettes without caching. One can > use UIDEJR instead, but UIDEJR is only a "driver" with no caching and > thus would not perform as well. > > Folks really should INSIST that the writers of VirtualBox "Follow the > RULES!" for PC hardware, instead of leaving you and I (perhaps others > as well) to make changes in long-established programs just for 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 -- NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone! Jetzt informieren: http://mobile.1und1.de/?ac=OM.PW.PW003K20328T7073a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
