From: harrison@sun.lclark.edu (Mark Harrison)
Subject: I've loaded MSCDEX and Mitsumi drivers high w/ QEMM 6.02
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:37:01 GMT

OK people.  I've heard a lot of people have problems loading either MSCDEX
or Mitsumi drivers in high memory.  I have been able to do so, so I
thought I would pass along my information.  I am doing this with QEMM 6.02
using Stealth mode.

I think we all have the same drivers, but just in case, here's the info. My
Mitsumi drivers are version 2.10.  MTMCDE.SYS is dated 10-30-92 and is
20479 bytes long.  MTMCDS.SYS is dated 10-27-92 and is 11761 bytes.

MSCDEX is version 2.21.

I did try to load the drivers without the Stealth option, but had no luck.
But since they were working with Stealth, I didn't try too hard either.  I
got the problem with the MTMCDE.SYS locking up.  Or I didn't have enough
high RAM to load MSCDEX.

My only other problem is with using the DMA option on MTMCDE.SYS with
games like Carmen Sandiego or Sherlock Holmes.  I finally had to do
without.  The weird thing about this is that the DMA option works great
with other disks like Simtel or MegaDemo.  It may have something to do
with my Gravis Ultrasound conflicting with the Mitsumi driver.  I know the
DMA channels are fine because I recently had problems with an OPTi chipset
and had it replaced.  And I know it's not the GUS causing problems because
I already had a different CD-ROM drive that had to be replaced (I was
installing my GUS and the computer kinda fell over on it's side.  Then I
started getting read errors. :-) Anyway, both these games worked great with
my GUS and previous drive.  But using the drivers without the DMA option
hasn't seemed to cause me any problems yet. 

If anyone would like help, feel free to ask.  I'm not an expert or
anything, but I've had better luck than you have. :-)

======================== Config.sys =======================================
LASTDRIVE=E
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS R:1 RAM X=B000-B7FF NOSH ST:M
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\DOS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 256 /E
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20
STACKS=9,256
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 C:\UTILS\CD_ROM\MTMCDE.SYS
     /D:MSCD001 /P:300 /A:0 /M:64 /T:S /I:10 /X 
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This line was just moved down for formatting.  It should be on the
previous line.

======================== Autoexec.bat =====================================
@ECHO OFF
C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:1 C:\UTILS\CD_ROM\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /M:20
C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
PROMPT $P$G
PATH C:\;C:\DOS;C:\BATCH;C:\QEMM;C:\TC\BIN;C:\ULTRASND
MD D:\TEMP
SET TEMP=D:\TEMP
C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:1 C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE
SET DIRCMD=/O:N

REM === Gravis Ultrasound Stuff ===
SET ULTRASND=220,7,7,11,5
C:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT
SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T1
ULTRAJOY 13
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