#Mutsumi CD-ROM drives?
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What do you know about Mutsumi CD-ROM drives? I am considering buying one but
I don't know much about the company. Any help would be appreciated. Send mail
to 71242,3001. Thanks.
Hello,
I own the MPC compliant LU005 and it works just fine with data and PhotoCD. I
have set this up in DOS with the drivers supplied and the audio for music also
is OK.
There is an OS2 driver, that I have not been able to function properly with
data, but I am certain the author will supply the need fixes or what ever.
Go for it.
Bill
Hi there
I just got the Mitsumi CD ROM today. Although I can get multimedia material
to play fine through Windows, and the Soundblaster software through Windows
also works fine.
However, I can't get a peep out of DOS applications, and the CD-PLAYER
doesn't produce any results when playing a regular audio CD.
Have I omitted to install a DOS driver or what? any ideas?
Cheers Nigel
Nigel — First thought is to check that the drivers are in the path statement.
The drivers must be installed or the WIN wouldn't work and it sounds like the
dos applications can't find the drivers. The CD player should work just fine.
Craig
Nigel,
There are two files that will be needed. One will access audio and the other
will allow data files to be accessed.
MTMCDE.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE
These are for DOS access and should be supplied with your CDROM. The
instruction will supply the parameters you will need for your computer.
One driver is loaded in your config.sys file and the other can be loaded when
you load the program or your autoexec.bat.
Good luck and if it still does not work properly, get back to me and we will
try some more.
Bill
I too have a Mitsumi LU0005s and a SoundBlaster board. I can not get audio
CD's to play and some DOS CD's to play through the SoundBlaster. I have a
fairly new SoundBlaster (not Pro or anything fancy).
There was no way to get the CD Drive and SoundBlaster connected directly. I
purhcased an RCA–>Headphone jack connector and plugged it from the back of the
Mitsumi to the "input" port of the SoundBlaster but no luck.
Any ideas if this should work? The SoundBlaster appears to be functioning fine
so I don't suspect it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Thanks to everybody who offered PRONTO assistance to my problem with the
Mitzumi and the Sbpro card. The solution as it happened, came from a
young student at an American university via Internet.
He said: EASY, look at the pinouts of the audio socket on the Mitzumi manual,
then compare them with the audio socket on the SoundBlaster manual…
Sure enough, the conductors are swapped over. SO take a small jewellers
screwdriver, gently lift up the plastic retainers on the white plastic plug
that goes into your SB card. simply swap:
RIGHT GROUND FOR RIGHT CENTRE 3>4
LEFT GROUND FOR LEFT CENTRE 1>2
Seemed to easy, so I just did it. Put in a New Order CD into the Mitzumi,
ran the SBPRO proggy called CDPLYR, and bugger me it worked!!!
SO now I've got Windows audio, Multimedia audio, Dos audio & audio CD audio
if that makes any sense.
Well chuffed this end.
Cheers Nigel
p.s. I also got my SIMTEL120 shareware CD ROM today. This is gonna save me
$$$$'s on my phonebill, and the install routine is fast & seamless.
Hello,
EMFBI, but I had replied to an earlier message Nigel placed in the forum. The
only question I have is why use a Soundblaster board when the Mitsumi is
supplied with an audio output on the board. That output will feed any amplifier
with stereo signals. I do not run MPCs.
I may be missing something ———-.
Bill
Bill — The audio input from the Mitsumi card will only play red book audio and
CD's. You cannot get digital sounds or speech as used in games and MM
applications.
Craig
Hayden, I had a fascinating experience this week with my older, Mitsumi
002 drive, and it's a story you should hear.
The 002 is the older drive in Mitsumi's lineup, with an eight-bit
interface card. It has the reputation of a moderate performer, only usable
because it's very inexpensive, costing less than $200 in most cases.
Wanting to learn about CD-ROMs, but not wishing to spend too much money,
I purchased an 002 drive bundled with four shareware discs for $250. As
expected, I got only moderate performance from the drive at best, with the CDTA
and MPC Wizard test programs showing many cases where the drive's data transfer
rate was no better than half of the MPC standard of 150 KB/second.
I wasn't disappointed, since I hadn't expected much. I had intended to
use the Mitsumi 002 drive as a starting point, planning to purchase a
high-performance drive later this year.
Then, I had an unrelated PC problem that damaged the motherboard on my
33-MHz '386 built-from-parts clone. That led me to purchase a new mother board,
replacing the old system board, its 1991 AMI BIOS and 64 KB cache with a board
carrying a 256 KB cache and a 1992 AMI BIOS. The CPU, 8 MB of SIMMS, accessory
cards and drives were the same. carried over from the old machine. Only the
motherboard and case were new.
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The new motherboard made a major difference in the performance of the
Mitsumi 002 drive. Rather than poke along in a sluggish manner, the Mitsumi
sped up to the 150 KB/second standard and stayed there, according to the CDTA
and MPC Wizard test programs: Wizard showed a 172 KB/second transfer rate.
Where the video on the Sherlock Holmes II demo disc and sound clips on the Time
Warner Desert Storm disc paused and broke up with the old motherboard, they ran
smoothly and uninterrupted on the new motherboard, with the same drive.
By the way, I've been using the Mitsumi 002 with the software transfer
option instead of DMA transfer, since software transfer worked better on the
old machine.
I would have never guessed that switching motherboards would make such a
dramatic difference for the Mitsumi. Instead of planning to replace the drive,
I'm going to keep it for a while, at least until the double-speed drives drop
to less than $200.