Ampro Corporation 486E - Manual (Page 4)

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I/O Addresses .............................................................................................................................2–11
Interrupt Assignments ..............................................................................................................2–12
ROM-BIOS Installation of the Serial Ports...............................................................................2–13
Serial Port Connectors (J11, J13)..............................................................................................2–13
Configuring Serial 2 for RS-485 (J6, W5, W6) ..........................................................................2–15
RS-485 Twisted-Pair Cabling Using RJ11 Connectors .............................................................2–16
Using the RS-485 Interface .......................................................................................................2–17
Serial Console ............................................................................................................................2–18
Serial Booting and Serial Programming ...................................................................................2–20
Using a Serial Modem................................................................................................................2–20
Bi-Directional Parallel Port.............................................................................................................2–21
I/O Addresses .............................................................................................................................2–21
ROM-BIOS Installation of Parallel Ports..................................................................................2–22
Standard and General Purpose I/O Operation ..........................................................................2–22
Parallel Port Interrupt ..............................................................................................................2–23
Parallel Port Connector (J15) ....................................................................................................2–25
Floppy Disk Interface ......................................................................................................................2–27
Floppy Drive Considerations .....................................................................................................2–27
Floppy Interface Configuration .................................................................................................2–28
Floppy Interface Connector (J14) ..............................................................................................2–28
IDE Hard Disk Interface .................................................................................................................2–29
IDE Connector (J12) ..................................................................................................................2–29
IDE Interface Configuration......................................................................................................2–31
Compact Flash Solid-State Disk................................................................................................2–32
Flat Panel/CRT Video Controller ....................................................................................................2–33
Connecting a CRT (J5)...............................................................................................................2–33
Connecting a Flat Panel (J3) .....................................................................................................2–35
Selecting Vee Polarity................................................................................................................2–39
Attaching an External Contrast Control...................................................................................2–40
Ethernet Network Interface ............................................................................................................2–42
Network Terms ..........................................................................................................................2–42
Installing an Ethernet Boot PROM ...........................................................................................2–43
Twisted Pair Interface (J7)........................................................................................................2–44
Twisted-Pair Installations.........................................................................................................2–44
Using Network Operating Systems (NOS) ................................................................................2–45
Network OS Drivers...................................................................................................................2–46
Controlling the Ethernet LAN Interface Directly .....................................................................2–46
Manufacturer’s Ethernet ID ......................................................................................................2–47
Byte-Wide Socket (S0) .....................................................................................................................2–48
Addressing the Byte-wide Socket ..............................................................................................2–49
Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives ...................................................................................................2–50
Accessing the Byte-Wide Socket ................................................................................................2–50
Jumpering the Byte-Wide Socket ..............................................................................................2–52
Byte-Wide Socket Signals ..........................................................................................................2–52
Using EPROMs ..........................................................................................................................2–53
FLASH EPROM Programming ..................................................................................................2–53
Using SRAMs .............................................................................................................................2–54
Non-volatile RAM ......................................................................................................................2–54