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From: allegro@teleport.com (Micallef)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Mitsumi drivers too big
Date: 29 Jul 1994 22:05:19 -0700
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>Does anybody know of smaller drivers for my mitsumi FX001 drive?
>The ones I have are HUGE (about 135k and 30k) and fill up my UMB and
>overflow into conventional memory.

What makes the drivers so large is the buffers that get set up. If you 
are using the latest version of smartdrive  and dos 6.2, then smartdrive 
will cache your cdrom so you can shrink the buffers down to the bear  
minimum.  I think the buffers are the /m option but i may wrong.
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