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Robin, I've been working on this problem since my last message reply to you (#46393). I've been to every forum on CI$ that seems appropriate – no luck. But after much ditzing around I have come up with two patches for the "Mitsumi stalls in Enhanced Mode DOS window" problem. I'm not happy with either as a permanent fix, but I wanted to post this so you and others may be able to shed some light on what's going on. I've ruled out all of my software except Stacker. It's the only thing I can't take out of my system. I don't think it's a problem but… Is anyone experiencing this problem who is _not_ running Stacker? "DOES ANYONE HAVE A SUPPORT NUMBER FOR MITSUMI?" he said in a loud voice. The "Manual" that came with my drive has no phone numbers at all – no address either. Either ONE of the following will fix the problem: 1. Change the /T: switch on the device driver line for MTMCDE.SYS in CONFIG.SYS to /T:S. Mine looks like this: DEVICE=C:\DEV\MTMCDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:300 /A:0 /M:40 /T:6 /I:11 /X This changes the mode from DMA Transfer to Software Interrupt Transfer. For stuff in DOS windows this shouldn't make much difference. But it should slow the system a little when running multimedia apps. —- OR —- 2. Add this line to the [386enh] section of your SYSTEM.INI file: DMABufferIn1MB=true As the name implies, this keeps the DMA buffer in the first 1MB of memory. Windows Resource Kit says "…to be compatible with 8-bit bus master cards." I have the 350ms Mitsumi drive with the 16 bit card. And as far as I know it isn't a bus master. This "fix" has the side affect of locking out my Sound Blaster Pro 2 card. So it won't work for me. Does anyone know why this setting is messing up SBP? Ken