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#Help! Mitsumi drive

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#28535From: stuart naultyOct 13, 1992 7:42 PM
I just installed a Mitsumi drive and I cannot get to work. when the autoexec.bat runs it gets to the /bin/mscdex.exe line and tells me I have the incorrect version of DOS. I am using DOS 5.0. I have tried setver several times. I have tried 4.01, 4.0, 3.3, 3.2 and 3.1. What am I doing wrong?
#28544From: Ronny OngOct 14, 1992 12:26 PM
I am successfully running a Mitsumi drive under DOS 5.0. Could you give a little more info on your problem? What version is your driver? Are you using the DMA or non-DMA mode? Did you change any of the defaults on the interface card? Are you using any other cards which might be causing conflicts? What other device drivers and/or TSR's are you loading in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT? Are you using a memory manager/loading MTMCDD hi? When the device driver loads, does it display any errors? Does the busy light flicker? Have you tried accessing a CD-ROM without the Microsoft extensions? Grolier's encyclopedia (DOS version) is one example of an application which doesn't need MSCDEX loaded. I am running SETVER, but I have not added anything to its list. The only problem I ran into was that I had to load MTMCDD before RCD, my Bernoulli driver.
#28572From: Clarke FerberOct 14, 1992 9:45 PM
Stuart, chances are (before anything else) is that your using an older version of the CD-ROM extensions. Just add MSCDEX.EXE to the setver info, as DOS 3.30. Then reboot, it should come up now. You would be better off downloading the file CDEXT.EXE from the Micro$oft lib (GO MSL). This is the latest version of the CD-ROM extensions and will work without setver under DOS 5.0, plus works alot better under windows 3.1. -Clarke
#28573From: Clarke FerberOct 14, 1992 9:45 PM
grab the file CDEXT.EXE from the Micro$oft library (GO MSL). It contains the MSCDEX for DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1. -Clarke