#Bad Mitsumi Drives
Well, now I know why my drive won't work with the OS/2 driver. Grabbed this off
a forum today. My drive fits the following description exactly. Now I hope I
can get CompUSA to give me credit on the drive for an NEC instead. I wish I
would have forked over the extra bucks for a better drive in the first place.
You get what you pay for, eh?
>Subject: Mitsumi Warning From The Net > >There have been many reports on
Prodigy and Internet that Mitsumi drives >manufactured after March 1993 do not
work under OS/2. > >(with either the German driver or Joe's driver) > >The
following was recently posted, so if you are in the market make sure >you have
a friendly dealer that will take the drive back. >
==================================== >Subject: Mitsumi problems explained
>From: benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu >Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
>Message-ID: <1993May25.232842.6073@spcvxb.spc.edu> >Date: 25 May 93 23:28:42
EDT >Organization: St. Peter's College, US > >I just received this e-mail
tonite. Very sad quality control IMO. >Alan > >Hi > >Well I managed to contact
Mitsumi and got transferred to their >Engineering Manager. He never talks to
the public and was surprised >when I got transferred to him. He had an
interesting tale to tell. It >seems in a later shipment of the LU005S drives
Mitsumi replaced an ASIC >on the drive electronics and the drives should have
been labelled 004, >not 005. What's special about this ASIC? Well the 004 drive
does not >support PhotoCD and from extrapolation, OS/2. Mitsumi told their
>distributors about this but not many told their retailers I guess. He >is also
going to call Joe Cossette and talk to him about this. > >Anyway how can you
tell if you have a 004 drive. Well if it doesn't work >with OS/2 that's one
clue. If it was manufactured in March 93 (and >possibly later) that's another.
The clincher is if the serial number >starts with a D then it certainly is a
004 drive. My retailer is going >to take the drive back and talk to his
distributor. If you can find a B >serial number it will be fine. > >Hope that
clears things up. > >Gary D. Archer
Well, it certainly cleared things up for me. Now where's that darn CD-ROM
purchase receipt…
Mike…