#Mitsumi Memory Loss
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Just installed a Mitsumi 5S. When I go into Windows two files are loaded
into memory which leaves me only 508K to run applications (not enough for
Ozcis, for example).
They are MTMCDE.SYS which is 20,784KB; and there is MSCDEX.EXE, which is
another 36,208KB.
How can I handle this? Can both be loaded into high memory? If so,
how?
I have a Mitsumi internal as well, and was hoping you could let me know if
there is any information or product support on the darn thing! It came in
a blue box and the name mitsumi only appears once on the box, and almost no
info in the manual. I just got a soundblaster, and it aint working yet.
I have a Mitsumi I purchased from Software Etc. It came with very little
documentation and no warranty card. I called Mitsumi and they said they
don't register their products. I find this odd, but what can I say. The
number is at work so I don't have it to give to you right now.
I too have a SoundBlaster board and it does not play audio CD's directly
from the Mitsumi drive. It is not supported. I believe the only one
currently supported is ATI's sound board. I do, however, get sound from
the sound board when playing MPC CD's via Windows. CD's like Cinemania and
Grandma and Me play fine via the soundblaster board.
When I get to work on Monday, time permitting, I'll post the phone number
for Mitsumi Electric. Good luck.
The MItsumi has software for playing Audio CDs through DOS using SB.
Frank Harris
John…
Yes, I got a small manual with mine from Groupware. It's about 25 pages or
so. Don't know where you got yours, but Ishmail (on this forum at
Groupware) would probably help.
I also have a soundblaster. I thought, at first, it wasn't working, but I
just goofed. It is.
Also, I just looked in the manual to see if there were any addresses or
phone nrs for you. Believe it or not! Not one! Matter of fact, not even
the name Mitsumi in the entire manual! Weird.
But it does seem to be a fine drive. I have no other drive to compare it,
but I'm perfectly happy with it. They do seem a little flaky, as in not
admitting who they are, though. Just looked on the front of the drive
itself: No Mitsumi name there either! Again: weird.
bp
Gee as a company whose biggest clients are like myself OEM's I don't find
that weird at all. Does your disk drive have a name on the front of it?
Frank Harris
Computron, Ltd.
Bob,
This is more of a question than an answer. Do you have any expanded memory
available? I ask because OZCIS is very well behaved. On my system it uses
only 4.1 K of conventional memory, and 2 meg expanded under DOS or WINDOWS.
John
John…
I confessed some ignorance to John Small in another msg here about my
expanded memory. I told him I assumed I have only 64k *expanded*, as
opposed to *extended* memory available… And that I was apparently using
all 64k of that up with Stacker and DOS5.
When you say "2 meg expanded" on your system, are you referringto expanded,
or extended?
bp
Check to see where your EMS is located … assuming you're using it. See if
you can get rid of it … that will get you 64k back. Otherwise, make sure
the page frame is (re)located to E000-EFFF, like this …
EMM386.EXE RAM FRAME=E000 (let Win31 provide the EMS as needed)
or
EMM386.EXE 1000 RAM FRAME=E000 (if you need 1mb of EMS for DOS)
Then you can load one or both of the cdrom files high.
Hope this helps.
-jts
John…
I'm fairly ignorant on the subject of EMS. Here's where I am: I assume
only 64k of EMS (Expanded) is avail. I'm using expanded memory for DOS 5
(not sure how much DOS uses of EMS), and for Stacker. Stacker uses some
20k+ I believe. So that about uses it all up???
You can have lots of EMS … that 64k is just the page frame that DOS looks
through to access whatever you have set up … many mb if needed. And if
you load Stacker with the /EMS switch it will put most of it there. Forget
the 64k page frame per se. Just make sure it's located from E000-EFFF, that
way you can have everything *up to that boundry* potentially available as
high ram except for the video section and an occasional rom.
-jts