I have not posted on this forum in almost 5 months due to the
rather VICIOUS attacks on me by Bret Johnson, Ralf Quint, and
Tom Ehlert re: diskette detection in the UIDE drivers.
However, this post has now become necessary.
Shown below is an E-Mail which I received early this morning,
from Christian Pfaller of Germany (forwarded by Johnson Lam).
Pfaller's problem is most likely a direct result of the logic
I added with the 29-May-2012 UIDE, which tests for up to four
diskettes using BIOS calls, instead of testing for only 2 via
directly checking the BIOS diskette-flags byte. That change
was made by me under duress, i.e. by the above damn FleaDOS
pundits INSISTING I obey the Ralf Brown lists and issue the
BIOS calls, so damn VirtualBox could be run without its OWN
diskette-detection problems getting CORRECTED!!
Pfaller indicates the last UIDE version which worked with his
LS120 drives was 20-May-2012, the version BEFORE I put in the
diskette BIOS calls.
I shall immediately PUT BACK the diskette test logic from the
20-May-2012 UIDE into the current UHDD/UIDE drivers.After
appropriate checking by me, Johnson, and Christian Pfaller, I
shall release an updated set of drivers on Johnson's website.
Eric, if your VBOXFIX program is still available, you might
want to re-issue it, with its specific logic to test the bits
in the BIOS diskette flag byte for the presence of diskettes,
when VirtualBox is used. I intend to use that byte again,
and NOT use BIOS calls to check for diskettes! You may also
want to INSIST that the VirtualBox emulator fools FIX their
diskette-detection logic to post the BIOS diskette-flags byte
properly, which would have AVOIDED all of this mess!
Now, I will again unsubscribe from FD-User. And I hope NO
ONE expects me to listen to any of its pundits ever again!!
Jack R. Ellis
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Original Message
Subject: Problem with the UIDE Cache and LS120 Diskette Drives.
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:03:58 +
From: MR-LEGO mr-lego...@web.de
To: Jack R. Ellis [forwarded from johnsonlam...@gmail.com]
Dear Mr Ellis.
Thank you for your great drivers. They work very fine.
But I have a problem with the UIDE cache in conjunction with an LS120
Diskette Drive. I found the problem by checking three LS120 diskettes
on last Friday. Yesterday and today I made some several tests with it.
I use the latest version [2012-08-04] of UIDE.
For example I load UIDE with the parameter /S25 (with 25MB-cache).
If I check now a LS120 diskette with DOSFSCHK, it told me that the first
and the second FAT are not be the same.
Now I load UIDE with the parameter /B (basic, without cache).
Then I check the LS120 diskette with DOSFSCHK, no errors were found.
If I make a 1:1 image of a LS120 diskette and UIDE-cache is loaded,
the content of the image isn't the same as the diskette.
Now I make a 1:1 image of a LS120 diskette without the UIDE-cache,
the content of the image is the same as the diskette.
This problem only appears with the LS120 Diskette Drive.
I tested UIDE under FreeDOS and MS-DOS and the result is the same.
I tested it on another computer with another LS120 Diskette Drive, too.
The oldest version of UIDE [2012-05-20] I tested doesn't have this problem.
Many thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Christian Pfaller
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