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From: Steve Covell CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware May 6, 1993 11:13 PM
Patrick: You'll probably have the same installation problems that you see everyone here having: getting the CD to live happily with the rest of your hardware. On the whole, it's worth it.
#47773 Mitsumi Benchmark Message #47867
From: Steve Covell CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware May 6, 1993 11:07 PM
Thanks for the info. It does seem to work well if you don't try to juggle tape drive, ethernet, Windows 32 bit drive access, etc. with DMA addresses, IRQ and base addresses. I have the older (apparently) drivers and need to download the drivers that are dated in '93. The…
#47787 Mitsumi Benchmark Message #47866
From: Steve Covell CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware May 6, 1993 11:03 PM
Thanks– I'll give it a try. The Mitsumi docs say that using the DMA driver is "preferable", I guess they mean faster. But still, I don't like it when I can't get something to work like it supposed to. Steve
#Mitsumi Benchmark Message #47750
From: Steve Covell CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware May 5, 1993 4:54 PM
I have spent the last half hour reading through the Mitsumi problems (DMA versus software) and found some good information about the problems I have been having. I just can't get the Mitsumi that I bought this week and the Colorado tape drive to be happy with each other. I…