Juan, > Upgraded to VirtualBox 4.1, used the settings you said, and UIDE loads > fast > now. (And CD access still works.) But I don't get an EDD error, I get > this: > >> UIDE, 6-16-2011. 5-MB Cache, CD/DVD name is FDCD0001. >> No V2.0C+ PCI, BIOS I/O only! >> CD0: IDE0 Secondary-master, VBOX CD-ROM, PIO. > > My UIDE command line is: > > DEVLOAD /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UIDE.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /S5 /N1 > > Is that the expected behavior?
No, actually this is WORSE behavior! Starting about 1994 with V2.0C of the PCI BIOS, there is a request drivers can issue which returns "PCI " in the CPU EDX-register, to say that a V2.0C or later PCI BIOS is in fact present. When UIDE does a scan for UltraDMA controllers on the PCI bus, it expects to find this "PCI " value. If not, UIDE assumes NO such controllers are present, meaning no hard-disks nor CD/DVD drives use UltraDMA! Note in your UIDE messages above that your CD drive is now a "PIO" device, not an "ATA-33" drive (33-MB UltraDMA speed) like before! I do not use and do not want VirtualBox, after all its problems as users have noted on this list! However, if you do want to go on using it, I would seriously "gripe" to Oracle (or its maintainers, whoever they might be!) that if VirtualBox now FAILS a 17-year-old test for the PCI BIOS, they need to DO SOMETHING about it, QUICK! Jack R. Ellis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
