Mitsumi Drive
07-Mar-92 10:38:47
Sb: #18777-Mitsumi Drive
Fm: THIERRY WAUTELET 76334,337
To: Randy Carver 72540,2265
Hello, I have one here. Work nicely It's the same as TANDY and sold here
(Belgium – Europe) 50% less than any other CD drive. From manual : Buffer
Capacity : 2352 Bytes It's MPC compliant. Interface is proprietary, some
kind of IDE-like interface (40 lines flat-cable) Has an Audio output cable
for the interface (which has 2 CINCH) and connect also to SBpro for audio.
Here some data from manual : 1) Performance : Data capacity 12 cm disc
540 Mbytes
8 cm disc 180 Mbytes
Access Time 12 cm disc Average (1/3 Stroke) 800 mS
Maximum (Full Stroke) 1.3 S
8 cm disc Average (1/3 Stroke) 700 mS
Maximum (Full STroke) 1.1 S
Data transfer Rate Average 150 Kbytes/Sec
Burst 1.6 Mbytes/Sec
Disc Spin-up time 1.0 Sec Typ
Error rate Less than 10 -12
There are 2 driver, one using DMA, other without. Adress range is 300h to
3FCh is step of 4h (so 64 choices Dip-sw) IRQ 2,3 or 5 DMA channels 1 or 3
Hope it help, Thierry