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AR-B1474 User¡

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5.2.1 Overview

There is 1 DIP Switch located on the AR-B1474. It performs the following functions:

ON

1

2

3

4

5

6

OFF

7

8

Figure 5-2 SW1: Switch Select

SW1-1 & SW1-2 Set the base I/O port address
SW1-3 & SW1-4 Set the starting memory address
SW1-5 & SW1-6 Set the drive number of solid state

disk

SW1-7 & SW1-8 Set the used ROM memory chips

5.2.2 I/O Port Address Select (SW1-1 & SW1-2)

SW1-1 & SW1-2 are provided to select one of the four base port addresses for the watchdog timer and the solid
state disk. The AR-B1474 occupies 6 I/O port addresses. Followings state selections of base port address.

SW1-1

SW1-2

Base Port

Solid State Disk Watchdog

OFF (*)

OFF

210h

210h-213h

214h-215h

ON

OFF

290h

290h-293h

294h-295h

OFF

ON

310h

310h-313h

314h-315h

ON

ON

390h

390h-393h

394h-395h

Table 5-1 I/O Port Address Select

5.2.3 SSD Firmware Address Select (SW1-3 & SW1-4)

The AR-B1474‘ s SSD firmware occupies 16KB of memory. SW1-3 & SW1-4 are used to select the memory base
address. You must select an appropriate address so that the AR-B1474 will not conflict with memory installed on
other add-on memory cards. Additionally, be sure not to use shadow RAM area or EMM driver’ s page frame in this
area.

SW1-3

SW1-4

SSD BIOS Address Bank Memory Address

OFF (*)

OFF

C800:0 (8KB)

CA00:0 (8KB)

ON

OFF

CC00:0 (8KB)

CE00:0 (8KB)

OFF

ON

D000:0 (8KB)

D200:0 (8KB)

ON

ON

DC00:0 (8KB)

DE00:0 (8KB)

Table 5-2 SSD Firmware Address Select

If you are not going to use the solid state disk (SSD), you could use JP7 to disable the SSD BIOS. The AR-B1474
will not occupy any memory address if the SSD BIOS is disabled.

If you are going to install the EMM386.EXE driver, please use the [X] option to prevent EMM386.EXE from using
the particular range of segment address as an EMS page which is used by AR-B1474. For example, write a
statement in the CONFIG.SYS file as follow: (If the memory configuration of AR-B1474 is C800:0)

DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE X=C800-CFFF

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