Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox U IDE2 init problem

2012-05-22 Thread Jack
>> The FAT file system is defined by DOS, and I want UIDE/UIDE2 to >> have NO run-time "dependencies" on the DOS system. > > Nice in theory, but unfortunately doesn't work in practice. Sure seems to, since before this thread, UIDE/UIDE2 have "trapped" only BIOS Int 13h I-O requests, and no one has

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem and slow VirtualBox U IDE2 init problem

2012-05-22 Thread Bret Johnson
Jack: > The FAT file system is defined by DOS, and I want UIDE/UIDE2 to > have NO run-time "dependencies" on the DOS system. Nice in theory, but unfortunately doesn't work in practice. DOS's management of the change line is under the sole auspices of the block device driver, not hardware/BIOS (