Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: Prof Antoine van Gelder Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Please Help: Mitsumi LU-002S (Tandy CRD-1000) Drivers Date: 3 Jun 1994 20:58:08 +0300 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 62 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: <2AAEB05758C@medic.up.ac.za> Reply-To: Prof Antoine van Gelder NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi X-pmrqc: 1 Return-receipt-to: "Prof Antoine van Gelder" Priority: normal X-mailer: PMail v3.0 (R1a) To: CDROM-L Redistribution Thanks to Doug Raichle, Guy Dandrea and Gary Williamson considerable progress was made on my search for drivers for the Tandy CDR-1000 cdrom drive. It appears as if this drive is considered obsolete and the drivers are turning out to be very difficult to locate. > The Tandy CDR-1000 is a Mitsumi LU-002S model. > It uses an 8-bit I/F card. After the LU-002, Mitsumi > came out with the LU-005 and FX series of CD-ROMs which > use a 16-bit I/F card. Drivers for the 3 CDs are incompatible. > I looked around in some of the anonymous FTP sites to see if > I could find you a copy of the Mitsumi LU-002 drivers, but > all the drivers I could find support only the LU-005 or FX. > Mitsumi has basically quit supporting the LU-002 and its > drivers have been replaced by the newer ones at the FTP sites. (From: Gary Williamson) I would appreciate any help in locating a copy of the Mitsumi LU-002S MTMCDS.SYS and/or MTMCDD.SYS files. Thanks, Antoine Van Gelder. > In article 25F5FDC51E5@medic.up.ac.za, Prof Antoine van Gelder p.ac.za> () writes: > :On Sat, 28 May 1994 14:34:18 this message was sent: > : > :>We recently received as a much appreciated donation a brand new Tandy > :>CDR-1000 cd rom drive complete with manual and interface card from an > :>unknown American well wisher. > :> > :>Unfortunately, the floppy drive containing the driver was missing. > :> > :>Can anyone assist us with obtaining the appropriate MTMCDS.SYS driver > :>and MSCDEX.EXE for this drive? > :> > You can use any version of MSCDEX with the CDR-1000. > The latest versions of MSCDEX are available from > numerous anonymous FTP sites. The best site might > be ftp.cdrom.com. > (From various helpers.) I found MSDEX on our MSDOS v6.0 and 6.2 disks (Suggested by Doug Raichle and Guy Dandrea) > The above assumes you are using DOS. If you were to use OS/2 > 2.x (or OS/2 for Windows), there is a single driver available > from IBM on anonymous FTP sites which supports all 3 > Mitsumi CDs. (From: Gary Williamson) Thanks in anticipation, Antoine van Gelder Email: avgelder@medic.up.ac.za Fax: +027 12 329 1327; Voice: +027 12 329 1111 ext 2287. Mail: Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Pretoria, P.O.Box 667, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.