Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Hansen
I am opening this conversation again about CD support in VirtualBox: It is true that the delay of UIDE at boot can be solved by selecting ICH9 and Enable IO APIC in VirtualBox ( System-Motherboard). Unfortunately this breaks networking in VirtualBox 4.0.12 and 4.1.4. The PCNTPK packet driver v.

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-24 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 24-7-2011 5:59, Juan Castro schreef: 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: remove the /N1 again to enable harddisk caching. Glad that UIDE loads fast again. I wonder if

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-24 Thread Jack
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-24 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: I do not use and do not want VirtualBox, after all its problems as users have noted on this list! It still more or less works (overall). ;-) However, if you do want to go on using it, I would seriously gripe to

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Juan Castro jccyc1...@gmail.com wrote: The first line (starting with UIDE.SYS) stays there for 19 seconds. Then the second one (starting with IDE0 Controller) stays there for 49 seconds. Then I get that error message. InĀ  a real machine, UIDE loads lightning

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-23 Thread Juan Castro
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 V2.0+ PCI, BIOS I/O only! CD0: IDE0 Secondary-master, VBOX CD-ROM, PIO. My UIDE

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-20 Thread Santiago Almenara
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Probably just a bug / flaw in the emulator, no surprise. (They don't test DOS as much, if at all, sadly.) File a bug report with them! Sure, they'll probably ignore it, but if you don't ask, they definitely won't (can't?) fix

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Santiago Almenara almen...@gmail.com wrote: I had the same problem with UIDE and VirtualBox. Jack R. Ellis (UIDE author) confirmed me that they are not 100%-compatible. You should use the /N1 option, as Bernd advised you. VirtualBox 4.1 was just released

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 19-7-2011 6:05, Rugxulo schreef: Have you tried UIDEJR instead? That won't help. Jack, author of UIDE, reminded me that UIDE is written for hardware with perfect (thus no bugs) PCI capabilities. Some real systems might have expose hardware/firmware bugs with respect to UIDE querying it.

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 19-7-2011 5:40, Juan Castro schreef: 1) Adding /N1 to the UIDE commandline (at the end) to disable the handling and caching of harddisks, might speed things up a bit. That had no effect. Unfortunate. Ah well, was worth a shot. Worked! Takes under one second to load. I got it

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-18 Thread Rugxulo
Probably just a bug / flaw in the emulator, no surprise. (They don't test DOS as much, if at all, sadly.) File a bug report with them! Sure, they'll probably ignore it, but if you don't ask, they definitely won't (can't?) fix it!!:-) On 7/18/11, Juan Castro jccyc1...@gmail.com wrote: The

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 18-7-2011 5:13, Juan Castro schreef: The first line (starting with UIDE.SYS) stays there for 19 seconds. Then the second one (starting with IDE0 Controller) stays there for 49 seconds. Then I get that error message. In a real machine, UIDE loads lightning quick. I remember reading such a

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-18 Thread Juan Castro
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: What you could try: 1) Adding /N1 to the UIDE commandline (at the end) to disable the handling and caching of harddisks, might speed things up a bit. That had no effect. 2) Try VIDE-CDD.SYS (Acer/Benq generic CD

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Juan Castro jccyc1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using an ISO, and access is fast after the annoying UIDE.SYS delay. It seems that comes from UIDE.SYS probing hard disks for some reason. (As the error message suggests.) Have you tried UIDEJR instead?