Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-22 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 22-5-2012 16:05, Jack schreef: > PCI V2.0C and later versions have all worked just FINE, until > the rather poor emulator know as "VirtualBox" appeared, using > its MISERABLE "emulation" logic for the Intel PIIX3 chipset!! > If they DO NOT have such "long delay" trouble with their ICH9 > "emula

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-22 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 22-5-2012 6:21, Rugxulo schreef: > Is anybody working on FD 1.2? I haven't heard anything (and don't > think we need it just yet anyways). Switching things around is, I > guess, that person's ultimate decision (Bernd??). I'm indeed working on a FreeDOS 1.2 as 1.0 and 1.1 didn't meet up to my

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-22 Thread Jack
Eric, >> Do try to understand, as my damn ex-wife never did [part of >> why she BECAME my ex- 32 years ago!!], that I have a REASON >> for everything I say and do, same as for everything in UIDE > > Just making suggestions for universally faster and > more fool-proof UIDE, as I dislike the idea t

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Auer
Jack, >> the numbering of FAT filesystem exists, among other reasons, >> to help DOS detect floppy changes even if there is no change I did not suggest that UIDE would use this, just said that DOS uses the volume serial to work around "no change line". >> As you know, int 13.15 can even report

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-22 Thread Jack
Eric, >> How does DOS ever detect that any hardware is "unreliable"?? > > I do not know, but earlier in this thread, somebody said that > the numbering of FAT filesystem exists, among other reasons, > to help DOS detect floppy changes even if there is no change > line available. The FAT file sys

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Auer
Jack, kernel people (now CCed), >> When DOS detects an unreliable floppy change line hardware, >> it should use the floppy label / serial / similar to detect >> changes in software ... > > How does DOS ever detect that any hardware is "unreliable"?? I do not know, but earlier in this thread, so

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Jack wrote: > >> VBox lets you choose how much % of processor to use, so it doesn't >> have to use 100% all the time. I just wonder whether their bugs are >> due to their tweaked BIOS or some hidden instruction incompatibility >> or what.   :-/ > > My own per

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-21 Thread Jack
-- UIDE2 has only 16 spare bytes before it goes back over a 7K .SYS file!   But, I shall find a way! > > I've never looked at UIDE closely, but there's "always" room for space > improvement in assembly!! ;-) Maybe you should "look again" at the UIDE.ASM source file! I have "boiled d

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-21 Thread Jack
Eric, > When DOS detects an unreliable floppy change line hardware, > it should use the floppy label / serial / similar to detect > changes in software ... How does DOS ever detect that any hardware is "unreliable"?? > I agree that it is nice to disable floppy caches, but maybe > the kernel act

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox UIDE2 init problem

2012-05-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, N.B. this was mailed to "freedos-user", not freedos-kernel. On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >>> -- UIDE2 has only 16 spare bytes before it goes back over a 7K >>> .SYS file!   But, I shall find a way! I've never looked at UIDE closely, but there's "always" room for space