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 driver) if you can find it on
> the internet
>
Worked! Takes under one second to load. I got it from here:
http://www.hiren.info/downloads/dos-files - is it legal to pass around?
By the way, it says: "CD-ROM drive #0 found on 170h port master device,
v1.0"
> Are you using an ISO in Virtualbox or connecting a physical CD unit (if
> that's possible at all, that is) ?
>
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.)
Juan
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