To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:13:16 -0800
Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM & TaskMgr
Message-ID: <19990206.231318.-27181.1.DOMANSPC@juno.com>
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From: ROBERT W MOSS <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

You might try switching the zip to the first ide and put the cd on the
second ide. I haven't used a zip drive before but all my cd drives
instructions suggest the cd on second ide and the cd lines in config.sys
and autoexec.bat as the last command.  also the Novell ndos7 manual says
that mscdex is not very compatible with ndos, and nwcdex has been
improved over mscdex and tweaked to fit ndos7.  

Since there have been a lot of changes in newdos, opendos, and
caldera/drdos the problem may be between versions of nwcdex,  taskmanager
and emm386 that you have loaded.  you might check caldera's web site to
get the most current files.  they have a package download of all the most
current changes to all the files.

You could also contact mitsumi and see if they have a more current driver
for your cd-rom drive for use with dos.

Good luck. Bob 'doman'  Moss. Logging in from the north side of
california.

On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 14:08:49 +1300 Ray Greene <raygr AT es DOT co DOT nz> writes:
>Ummm, what I meant to say was that EMM386 crashes when TaskMgr is 
>running.
>
>I'm also having problems with an internal Zip drive.
>
>First, it won't load the Zip driver (the Zip is master on 2nd IDE) 
>unless
>the CD-ROM driver has been loaded first - the CD-ROM is slave on 1st 
>IDE.
>This also happens with MSDOS 6.22.
>
>Second, trying to run the Iomega utility programme (scsiutil.exe) 
>locks up
>the machine. It runs OK with MSDOS.
>
>Any ideas on why this happens?
>
>Ray Greene.
>
>
>
>At 09:33 PM 06-02-99 +1300, I wrote:
>>I have just fitted a 32X Mitsumi CD-ROM drive to my 486 DX4-120 but 
>now I
>>find that TaskMgr is very unstable and crashes at the least 
>provocation. 
>>Loading the Mitsumi driver high or low makes no difference.
>>I have tried NWCDEX and MSCDEX but both have the same problem.
>>
>>Does anyone have any ideas on how fix for this problem?
>>
>>My ancient Panasonic 2X CD-ROM drive never caused me any problems 
>with
>>TaskMgr, but unfortunately it has died :-(
>>
>>Ray Greene.
>>
>>
>

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