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  • Page 1 Intellio C218Turbo/PCI User’s Manual A High Performance 8 Port Async Board for PCI Bus The content of this manual is also available in CD-ROM and at Moxa Web Site. March. 1999 (3rd Edition) Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. Tel: +866-2-8665-6373 Fax: +886-2-8665-6372 www.moxa.com...

  • Page 2: Copyright Notice

    All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without permission is prohibited. Trademarks MOXA is a registered trademark of Moxa Technologies Co., Ltd. All other trademarks or registered marks in this manual belong to their respective manufacturers. Disclaimer Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Moxa.

  • Page 3: Moxa Internet Services

    MOXA Internet Services Customer’s satisfaction is always our number one concern. To ensure that customers get the full benefit of our services, Moxa Internet Services have been built for technical support, product inquiry, new driver update, user’s manual update, etc. The followings are the services we provide.

  • Page 4: About This Manual

    This manual is composed of six Chapters and one Appendix. This manual is written for installer, system administrator and software programmer. If you are a first-time installer and system administrator, we recommend you to go through the whole manual except Chapter 4. If you are a software programmer, you may refer to Chapter 4 “Serial Programming Tools”.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Introduction... 1-1 Overview ...1-1 Features...1-3 Check List ...1-3 Installation Guide ... 1-5 Hardware Installation ... 2-1 Installing the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI Control Board ...2-1 Installing Connection Option Opt8x ...2-2 Operating Opt8J...2-4 Software Installation... 3-1 Windows NT ...3-1 Installing Driver ....3-2 Configuring Board and Port...
  • Page 6 Extended UNIX Ioctl() Commands..4-6 Utilities .... 4-12 RS-485 Programming for Opt8J...4-15 Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring ... 5-1 RS-232 Cable Wiring for Opt8A/B/C/D/S ... 5-1 RS-422 Cable Wiring for Opt8J/F/Z ...5-8 RS-485 Cable Wiring for Opt8J ...5-10 RS-422/485 Impedance Matching...5-11 Troubleshooting ...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Overview Intellio - The Intelligent Multiport Serial I/O Solutions The Intellio C218Turbo/PCI is an 8 port high performance intelligent serial interface board designed for 32-bit PCI bus with “Plug and Play” feature. It is suitable for remote access, industrial control and office automation, where a PC system needs to communicate with multiple modems, data acquisition equipment, serial printers and any other serial devices through RS-232/RS-422/RS-485 interfaces.
  • Page 8 ASIC Design, Compact Size The Intellio C218Turbo/PCI is also equipped with MOXA customer-designed ASIC chip, which replaces lots of conventional IC and hence reduces the board to half-size, increases the operation performance, and lowers the failure rate of the board. Surge/Isolation Protection To prevent the boards from damage caused by lightning or high potential voltage, TVSS (Transient Voltage Surge Suppressor) and high potential difference protector...

  • Page 9: Features

    PC-based (vending) Machine or Kiosk System Point-of-Sale (POS) System Features The following is a summary of all the outstanding features of Intellio C218Turbo/PCI: High speed serial communication channel¡Ð m ax. 921.6 Kbps per port (Max. speed may be limited by certain connection option such as Opt8J, which supports max.
  • Page 10 Device driver diskettes: Intellio C218Turbo/PCI User's Manual (This Manual) You need also one of the following connection options: Opt8A/Opt8B/Opt8S RS-232 connection box with 8 DB25 female/male/female ports, respectively (surge protection for Opt8S). 1.5 meter DB62 to DB62 cable. Opt8C/Opt8D RS-232 octopus cable with 8 port male connectors, DB25 for Opt8C and DB9 for Opt8D (1 meter long).

  • Page 11: Installation Guide

    Installation Guide This section gives a brief summary of how to install the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI under each supported operating system. Installation is simple and involves the following stages: Check PCI BIOS settings Install Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board And connection option (cable/box) Install software from diskette And configure driver for board and ports Connect devices with cable...
  • Page 12 Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual...

  • Page 13: Hardware Installation

    The installation of Intellio C218Turbo/PCI consists of hardware installation and software installation. For software installation, please refer to the respective section of operating systems in the next chapter. Hardware installation is stated in this chapter. The no-switch-no-jumper Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board’s hardware configuration for IRQ and memory addresses is automatically assigned by PCI BIOS.

  • Page 14: Installing Connection Option Opt8X

    Step 7: Connect one of the connection box/cable (also adapter if required) detailed in the next Section. Step 8: Power on PC and BIOS will automatically set the IRQ and memory address. Note ! Each board must occupy one unique IRQ and one unique memory address, which are assigned by PCI BIOS automatically.
  • Page 15 RS-422/RS-485 connection box's DB62 connector. Both ends of the cable are identical. After that, don't forget to apply power via the adapter to the Opt8J/F/Z. Hardware Installation Intellio C218 Turbo /PCI Opt8A/Opt8B/Opt8S P3 P4 Intellio C218 Turbo/PCI...

  • Page 16: Operating Opt8J

    Opt8J. Each switch controls the communication mode (RS-422 or RS-485) of each port, respectively. Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual Intellio C218 Turbo/PCI Opt8F/Opt8Z/Opt8J 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 RS-422/485 Port Switch of Opt8J...
  • Page 17 RS-422 Mode Set the respective switch to OFF position to use RS-422 interface. This means the port is always ready to transmit and receive data simultaneously (full-duplex). RS-485 Mode The Opt8J supports only 2-wire RS-485 communication. Set the respective switch to ON position to use RS-485 interface.
  • Page 18 Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual...

  • Page 19: Software Installation

    Software Installation In this chapter, software driver installation, configuration and driver upgrade/removal procedures are described for various operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and UNIX. Before proceeding with software installation, complete the hardware installation detailed in the previous chapter. However, if you need to develop applications, refer to the next chapter, “Serial Programming Tools”, for more information.

  • Page 20: Installing Driver

    Installing Driver The following is the procedure for installing the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI driver for the first time under Windows NT 4.0. Make sure the board(s) has(have) already been plugged in the system PCI slot. 1. Please Login NT as Administrator. 2.
  • Page 21 5. Select “MOXA Intellio C218Turbo Multiport Board” in the “Select OEM Option” dialog box, and then click [OK] to enter the “MOXA Configuration Panel” dialog box to start the installation. 6. In the “MOXA Configuration Panel” dialog box, click [Add] to enter “Property”...
  • Page 22 You have to set up all the ports of the board with the desired “COM number”, which should not conflict with other COM number in use. In this “Individual Port Setting” dialog box, you may have two ways to map the physical ports to COM numbers depending on the check box “Auto Enumerating COM number”.
  • Page 23 In the “Advanced Settings” dialog, you may customize the driver with the following two features: UART FIFO Enable: You can set this feature to “Enable” (default) and gain best performance for the board. Disable: You can set this feature to “Disable” to avoid from data loss when communicating with communication devices using S/W flow control.
  • Page 24 8. Click [OK] in the “Individual Port Setting” and the “Property” dialog boxes to go back to the “MOXA Configuration Panel” dialog box. Click [OK] to finish the configuration. However, if you installed more than one board, click [Add] and repeat steps 6 and 7 to configure another board.

  • Page 25: Configuring Board And Port

    Enter [Administrative] group, then open [Event Viewer] icon and then select [Application Event Log] item to check for successful message similar to "MOXA C218Turbo/PCI Multiport Board #1: addr(XXX) O.K." for each configured board. If error message is like “MOXA C218Turbo/PCI Multiport Board #1 addr(XXX): IRQ(10) test failure!”, refer to the “Troubleshooting”...
  • Page 26 3. Click on [Properties…] button to start the “MOXA Configuration Panel” dialog. In this configuration panel, you may: Click [Property] to enter “Property” dialog box to configure the selected board with the correct “Total Ports” and “COM Number”. Please see steps 6 to 8 in the previous section, “Installing Driver”, for more details, except that the “Board Type”...

  • Page 27: Adding/Removing Board

    Click [Add] to add one more board that is not yet configured in the system. Up to four of Intellio C218Turbo/PCI boards can be installed together as long as the memory and IRQ resources are sufficient and available in a system.

  • Page 28: Removing Driver

    Removing Driver To remove the driver for the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board, 1. Open the [Control Panel], click on the [Network] icon and select the [Adapters] tab. 2. Select “MOXA Intellio C218Turbo Adapter” in the adapter list, then click on the [Remove] button and the [OK] button to remove the driver. 3.

  • Page 29: Installing Driver

    Software Installation Installing Driver If you are the first time installer or you want to install more board, this section is for you. You can easily plug the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board and work right away with little installation effort under Windows 95/98, which supports Plug and Play capability.
  • Page 30 The following flow chart illustrates the driver installation stages of the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board. Each stage is detailed later. Install the Intellio PCI board in the Start Windows 95/98 to detect the board Install the driver with the diskette See “First Time Driver Installation Stage” Configure the board and port See “Port Configuration Stage”...

  • Page 31: First Time Driver Installation Stage

    First Time Driver Installation Stage The stage presents the steps for installing the driver for the first time with the first Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board. The installation of Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board for Windows 95 and Windows 98 differs slightly and will be described in two columns. Follow the steps in the left or right column for Windows 95 or 98, respectively.
  • Page 32 3. Type “A:\Windows.95” in the Location field, and click [OK]. The system will start reading the files from the diskette. 4. Clink on the [Finish] button. Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual 3-14 3. Selct “Other Devices” and click [Next>]. 4. Click on the [Have Disk] button. 5.
  • Page 33 Software Installation 6. Click [Next>]. Click [Next>]. Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual 3-15...

  • Page 34: Port Configuration Stage

    Port Configuration Stage This stage displays the “MOXA Ports Installation” dialog box for the port configuration. Here you can map the MOXA ports to the system COM numbers. In the “MOXA Ports Installation” dialog box, the “COM Number” field of the newly installed board is undefined.

  • Page 35: Board And Port Ready Stage

    Board and Port Ready Stage Click on [OK] buttons for all the dialog boxes to finish the configuration and exit the “MOXA Ports Installation” dialog. In this last stage, you will complete the driver installation. Windows 95 After the port installation, you can immediately use the COM ports of the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board without restarting the Windows 95 system.
  • Page 36 Once the installation is finished, error conditions of the board, if any, are displayed on the screen. Otherwise, everything should be fine. If an error message similar to “C218Turbo/PCI (BusNo=x, DevNo=x) at base memory [XXX] interrupt failure!” appears, consult the “Troubleshooting” chapter. Up to now, the driver installation of Intellio C218Turbo/PCI is Note ! completed and successful including the board and port...

  • Page 37: Configuring Board And Port

    Configuring Board and Port If you already have installed the driver and want to re-configure the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board under Windows 95/98, the following is the procedure for you. 1. Click on the Taskbar [Start] button, select the [Programs] menu, and then [MOXA Utilities] menu and then [MOXA Configuration Panel] icon.
  • Page 38 3. In the “Property” dialog, you may click on [Port Setting] button to enter the following “Individual Port Setting” dialog box to change the port COM number mappings or do the advanced settings.. Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual 3-20...
  • Page 39 In the “Individual Port Setting” dialog box, you may have two ways to map the physical ports to COM numbers depending on the “Auto Enumerating COM number” check box. Sequential Port Mapping: (Enable “Auto Enumerating COM number”) Specify the COM number of the first port and subsequent ports are mapped to continuous COM numbers.
  • Page 40 In the “Advanced Settings” dialog box, you may customize the driver with the following two features: UART FIFO Enable: You can set this feature to “Enable” (default) and gain best performance for the board. Disable: You can set this feature to "Disable" to avoid from data loss when communicating with communication devices using S/W flow control.

  • Page 41: Updating Driver

    Updating driver Open the [Control Panel] and click on the [System] button, and select the [Device Manager] tab. Select the “Moxa Intellio Multiport Board” entry and the “Moxa C218Turbo/PCI” entry. Click on the [Properties] button and select the [Driver] tab and then click on the [Update Driver...] button. Removing driver You can not actually remove the driver.

  • Page 42: Unix

    UNIX There are various UNIX operating systems, such as SCO UNIX, UNIX SVR4.2, XENIX and Solaris, etc. Different types of UNIX drivers are required for different UNIX. Moxa supports device drivers currently for SCO UNIX, UNIX SVR4.2 and XENIX. In this section, driver installation procedure is described. Administration utility, mxadm, is explained, which is for configuration, monitor and terminal emulation.
  • Page 43 MOXA UNIX Device Driver Installation Ver. x.x Please select one of the following OS: 1. SCO UNIX 2. UNIX SVR4.2 3. XENIX Select: Please type 1 for SCO UNIX 3.2.x, SCO OpenServer or SCO Open Desktop. Type 2 for UNIX SVR4.2, UnixWare or MITUX.
  • Page 44 For more details, see later section “Administration Utility -mxadm”. Up to now, you have already completed the whole installation and the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board is ready to work. Note! Please double check if all the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI components: Control Board, link cable and external modules, are connected and fastened tightly in order to ensure the system and driver will start successfully later.

  • Page 45: Moxa Tty Device Naming Convention

    MOXA TTY Device Naming Convention If the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI is successfully configured, there will be two tty devices created for each port at /dev directory: one is non-MODEM tty (e.g. ttya11), and the other is MODEM tty (e.g. ttyA11). The two devices are actually accessing the same physical port except that the MODEM tty has to check the ON status of DCD signal to be able to open device, and closing device automatically as DCD...

  • Page 46: Administration Utility - Mxadm

    Administration Utility - mxadm You can use the administration utility, mxadm, to change the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI basic and advanced configuration, to reset the board, to tune performance and to remove the installed MOXA driver from the UNIX system, which are detailed as follows. For the details of the rest utilities: port monitoring, and terminal emulator, please refer to Section "UNIX"...
  • Page 47 In the “Basic Configuration” dialog, you should first press Enter in board type field to select board type, C218Turbo/PCI. And then a list of Intellio C218Turbo/PCI boards found available is popped up for you to select. Normally, one choice is available if there is one Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board installed beforehand.

  • Page 48: Advanced Configuration

    Advanced Configuration This is to provide advanced settings for advanced driver features beyond basic settings described in the previous Basic Configuration. Similarly, in “Board Settings” dialog, board reset (described later) is available for the latest configuration to take effect without kernel rebuilding and system reboot. 1.
  • Page 49 Software Installation 2. Press PageDown to enter “Advanced Port Settings” sub-dialog, there are some noticeable fields for initialize the ports for advanced usage. You may skip this step if you do not concern these features. Feature In “Port Feature Settings” sub-dialog, port feature [Terminal] is the only choice if On Board Line Discipline is set to “Enable”.
  • Page 50 Response Three levels, Slow, Normal and Fast, of port response time are designed for user's need. Ports with faster response time will consume more host CPU's resource while slower response consumes less resource. The response time for those ports with normal or slow response can be further tuned by the response level in “Performance Tuning”...

  • Page 51: Performance Tuning

    Performance Tuning The utility let you tune the favored response time for those ports with Resp = Norm or Slow in [Port Feature] sub-menu of Advanced configuration. Ten response time levels (0-9) are available for tuning. The idea is that the faster response time will consume more host CPU resource while slower response consume less resource.

  • Page 52: Driver Removal

    However, before the board reset is issued, you must make sure that 1. All enabled ports must be disabled. 2. All processes related to the Intellio C218Turbo/PCI, including getty or tty monitor, are killed. Once the board is reset, the following message may show if it is successful. MOXA Serial I/O Board (Ver x.x) Downloading MOXA-C218Turbo/PCI (MemBank=XX000;BusNo=X;DevNo=X) is found.

  • Page 53: Checking Board Initialization Status

    Checking Board Initialization Status When the system starts up and enters into the multiuser mode, you should see the board initialization status report, which is same as one of the messages described in the “Board Reset” part of previous section. Setting MOXA Ports to Terminal Following procedure is how to set the MOXA port to the “Terminal”...
  • Page 54 Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual 3-36...

  • Page 55: Serial Programming Tools

    Serial Programming Tools Moxa supports powerful but easy serial programming library and utilities under Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and UNIX. You will greatly save the developing time with the MOXA Serial Programming Tools. The following sections will details the installation, the library and the utilities for various O.S. platforms. Windows NT and Windows 95/98 PComm, the professional serial comm tool for PC, is a software package under Windows NT and Windows 95/98, which consists of powerful serial...

  • Page 56: Pcomm Programming Library

    PComm Programming Library The serial communication library is to assist users to develop programs for serial communications for any COM port complying with Microsoft Win32 API. It can ease the implementation of multi-process and multi-thread serial communication programs and hence greatly reduce the developing time. For complete library function description and example programs for Visual C++, Visual Basic and Delphi, please see help file and example programs in PComm directory for more details.

  • Page 57: Diagnostic (For Moxa Boards Only)

    Serial Programming Tools Diagnostic (for MOXA boards only) A co3nvenient diagnostic program provides internal and external testing, such as IRQ, TxD/RxD, UART, CTS/RTS, DTR/DSR, DTR/DCD testing, etc., for the MOXA boards and ports to verify correct operation of both the software and hardware.
  • Page 58 Monitor (for MOXA boards under Windows NT Only) A useful port status monitoring program allows you to watch the selected MOXA COM ports' data transmitting/receiving throughput and communication line status which are updated and displayed on the screen at every time interval. In addition, you may click on one of the specific displayed port in order to see the current communication parameters and status of that port.

  • Page 59: Terminal Emulator

    Serial Programming Tools Terminal Emulator The Terminal Emulator features multi-windows and supports terminal types of VT100 and ANSI. You can transfer data interactively, send pattern periodically or transfer file using ASCII, XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM and KERMIT protocols. Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual...

  • Page 60: Unix

    UNIX Programming the MOXA Ports The system calls that apply to standard tty port can also be applied to MOXA port since MOXA port conforms to UNIX tty standard. System calls are like open(), ioctl(), read(), write(), close(), etc. Please refer to your UNIX Programmer's Reference manual.
  • Page 61 Syntax for SCO UNIX/XENIX #define MIBUFED count; /* number of bytes queued in the buffer */ ioctl(moxa_fd, MIBUFED, &count); Syntax for UNIX SVR4 #include #include #define MIBUFED struct strioctl count; /* number of bytes queued in the buffer */ ioc.ic_cmd = MIBUFED; ioc.ic_timout = 0;...
  • Page 62 ioc.ic_cmd = MOBUFED; ioc.ic_timout = 0; ioc.ic_len = sizeof(int); ioc.ic_dp = (char *)&count; ioctl(moxa_fd, I_STR, &ioc); Note: See MIBUFED for influence of STREAMS driver. 3. MTCRTS This function, only valid when hardware flow control is turned off (see MHWFLOW), is used to drive RTS signal on or off. Syntax for SCO UNIX/XENIX #define MTCRTS #define TurnON...
  • Page 63 Syntax for SCO UNIX/XENIX #define MTCDTR #define TurnON #define TurnOFF ioctl(moxa_fd, MTCDTR, TurnON); ioctl(moxa_fd, MTCDTR, TurnOFF); Syntax for UNIX SVR4 #include #include #define MTCDTR #define TurnON #define TurnOFF struct strioctl setting = TurnON /* or TurnOFF */; ioc.ic_cmd = MTCDTR; ioc.ic_timout = 0;...
  • Page 64 Syntax for SCO UNIX/XENIX #define MLOWATER lowater; /* low water value of output buffer (default = 512 bytes) */ ioctl(moxa_fd, MLOWATER, lowater); Syntax for UNIX SVR4 #include #include #define MLOWATER struct strioctl int lowater; /* low water value of output buffer (default = 512 bytes) */ ioc.ic_cmd = MLOWATER;...
  • Page 65 7. MHWFLOW This function is used to enable/disable hardware flow control. The first open() function of a port will set the hardware flow control bits on or off depending on the [RTS/CTS Hardware Flow Control] configuration in mxadm. However, users might want to control the DTR or RTS signal on their will, thus the RTS flow control bit should be turned off (HWFLowControlOff) in order to take over the control of DTR or RTS signal via function MTCRTS or MTCDTR.

  • Page 66: Utilities

    Utilities You can use the administration utility, mxadm, to monitor port activity and to do terminal emulation, which are details as follows. Port Monitoring This utility gives you a quick view about all the MOXA ports' activities. You can easily learn each port's total received/transmitted (Rx/Tx) character count since the time when the monitoring is started.
  • Page 67 Serial Programming Tools Terminal Emulator This utility provides data sending and receiving ability of all tty ports, especially for MOXA ports. It is quite useful for testing simple application, for example, sending AT command to a modem connected to the port or used as a terminal for login purpose. Note that this is only a dumb terminal emulation without handling full screen operation.
  • Page 68 2 Select and enter “Terminal” to enter terminal emulation. Or select and enter “Advanced Transfer Modes” to perform pattern or file transfer with protocols such as ZModem. Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual 4-14...

  • Page 69: Rs-485 Programming For Opt8J

    RS-485 Programming for Opt8J If you intend to do RS-485 communication with Opt8J, please follow the RS-485 programming guide below and also refer to Chapter “Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring” for more Opt8J RS-485 operation details. The Opt8J supports only 2-wire half-duplex RS-485 communication. Data+/- pins are served for both data transmitting and receiving, depending on the RTS signal.
  • Page 70 Solution 2 There's a dedicated RS-485 function in PComm library. It integrates the above functions of solution 1 regarding sending data as one. sio_putb_x(port, buff, tick ); /* For more information on these functions, please refer to PComm library on-line Help file for Windows NT and Windows 95/98.

  • Page 71: Connection Option (Opt8X) And Cable Wiring

    Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring In serial data communications, the term DTE is for Data Terminal Equipment like PC COM1/2, serial printer and terminal. The term DCE is for Data Communication Equipment like modem. Please check the precise pinouts, the following pinouts are typical examples.
  • Page 72 The followings are pin assignments for various connection options: Opt8A/S (DCE, DB25 Female) Opt8B/C (DTE, DB25 Male) Opt8D (DTE, DB9 Male) Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual...
  • Page 73 Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring Type 1: To connect Intellio C218Turbo/PCI to a DTE device. Straight-through Cable Opt8A/S Opt8A/S DB25 Female Null Modem Cable Opt8B/C Opt8B/C DB25 Male PC COM2 port, Serial Printer, Terminal, or any DTE Device DTE Device DB25 Male PC COM2 port, Serial Printer, Terminal, or any DTE Device...
  • Page 74 Opt8D Opt8D DB9 Male Type 2: To connect Intellio C218Turbo/PCI to a DCE device. Opt8A/S Opt8A/S DB25 Female Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual PC COM2 port, Serial Printer, Terminal, or any DTE Device DTE Device DB25 Male Null Modem Cable Modem, or any DCE Device DCE Device...
  • Page 75 Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring Straight-through Cable Opt8B/C Opt8B/C DB25 Male Opt8D Opt8D DB9 Male Modem, or any DCE Device DCE Device DB25 Female Modem or any DCE Device DCE Device DB25 Female Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual...
  • Page 76 Type 3: To connect Intellio C218Turbo/PCI to a DTE with 3-pin wiring. If the “Hardware flow control” feature is set to “ON”, you must loop back (or short) the RTS with CTS and DSR with DTR, DCD on MOXA site, indicated in dash-lines of the following diagrams. If the “Hardware flow control”...
  • Page 77 Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring Opt8D Opt8D DB9 Male PC COM2 port, Serial Printer, Terminal, or any DTE Device DTE Device DB25 Male Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual...

  • Page 78: Rs-422 Cable Wiring For Opt8J/F/Z

    RS-422 Cable Wiring for Opt8J/F/Z RS-422 connection boxes designed for Intellio C218Turbo/PCI are: Opt8J: Connection box with 8 female RS-422/485 DB25 ports. Set the port switch to OFF position (RS-422) for the desired port(s). Opt8F: Connection box with 8 female RS-422 DB25 ports and Max. 500V DC isolation protection which prevents damage caused by high potential voltage.
  • Page 79 Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring The followings are operation modes for RS-422: RS-422 Point-to-point Opt8F/Z RS-422 Device TxD+(B) RxD+(B) 16 TxD-(A) RxD-(A) RxD+(B) TxD+(B) 14 RxD-(A) TxD-(A) Opt8J RS-422 with Handshaking Opt8J RS-422 Device TxD+(B) RxD+(B) 16 TxD-(A) RxD-(A) RxD+(B) TxD+(B) 14 RxD-(A)

  • Page 80: Rs-485 Cable Wiring For Opt8J

    RS-485 Cable Wiring for Opt8J One RS-485 connection box designed for Intellio C218Turbo/PCI is: Opt8J: Connection box with 8 female RS-422/485 DB25 ports. Set the port switch to ON position. The Opt8J supports only 2-wire half-duplex RS-485 communication. Data+/- pins are served for both data transmitting and receiving, depending on the RTS signal.

  • Page 81: Rs-422/485 Impedance Matching

    Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring RS-422/485 Impedance Matching For RS-422/485 serial communications, when an electrical signal travels through two different resistance junctions in a transmission line, the impedance mismatch will sometimes cause signal reflection. Signal reflection causes signal distortion, which in turn will contribute communication errors.
  • Page 82 Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual 5-12...

  • Page 83: Troubleshooting

    Common C218 Turbo/PCI problems and possible solutions are listed below, in addition to those operating systems specific ones. If you still have problems, contact your dealer or Moxa for help. Or report it using “Problem Report Form” at the end of this manual to your dealer at once for faster technical support.

  • Page 84: Windows Nt

    report of diagnostics shows error, replace the error component. Software Causes and Solutions: a. Intellio C218Turbo Series will check line status (CTS) before it sends data out if RTS/CTS flow control feature is set to “Enable” in configuration or application program.

  • Page 85: Windows 95/98

    3. Windows NT system panic (blue screen). The possible reason is IRQ or memory conflict with other ISA Bus adapters like LAN and SCSI board or system BIOS. Please refer to the corresponding problem in previous Section "General Troubleshooting" for solutions. 4.

  • Page 86: Unix

    UNIX This section is specific for troubleshooting under UNIX. For general problems and solutions, please see previous Section "General Troubleshooting". 1. During system reboot, error message “WARNING! C218 Turbo/PCI (XX000;BusNo=X;DevNo=X) not found!” appears. The possible cause is memory conflict or defective board. Please shutdown the system first, and then refer to the corresponding problem and solutions in previous Section “General Troubleshooting”.
  • Page 87 5. The newly rebuilt kernel could not boot. The C218 Turbo/PCI driver might not be built into the new kernel correctly. Please use the last good kernel backup to boot again. The kernel backup in SCO UNIX is /unix.moxa while in UNIX SVR4.2 /stand/unix.moxa. Then remove the C218 Turbo/PCI driver.
  • Page 88 Intellio C218Turbo /PCI User's Manual...

  • Page 89: Technical Reference

    Specifications Bus interface: Number of ports: Max. boards: Base memory addr.: IRQ: RISC processor: On-board buffer: Comm. controller: Speed (bps): Data bits: Stop bits: Parity: Data signals: Connectors: Surge protection: Operating temp: Power requirement: Dimensions: Operating Systems: Technical Reference 32-bit PCI (PCI Spec. 2.1 compliance) Assigned by PCI BIOS (Maps to 16K Bytes system Assigned by PCI BIOS (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15) TI TMS320BC203...

  • Page 90: Pci

    Windows NT Windows 95/98 SCO UNIX/OpenServer UNIX SVR4.2 XENIX : Driver supported by Moxa and shipped with product Note : Download the newest drivers from the MOXA FTP service The 32-bit Intellio C218Turbo/PCI board complies with PCI Spec. 2.1. Hardware configuration for IRQ and Memory addresses is automatically assigned by PCI BIOS.

  • Page 91: Uart 16C550C

    faster than normal I/O access. All messages and data are transferred through this 512 KB dual-ported memory. The buffer area appears as normal 16-bit memory to the PC AT I/O channel. Every Intellio C218Turbo/PCI only occupies 16 KB of memory space (window) from the system point of view.

  • Page 92: Problem Report Form

    Problem Report Form Customer name: Company: Tel: Email: 1. Moxa Product: C218Turbo/PCI 2. Moxa Driver version: ________________ 3. Moxa hardware settings: PCI Slot number ________________________ 4. Operating System: o Windows 95 o Windows NT 3.51 o Windows NT 4.0 o SCO UNIX 3.2.4 o SVR4.2 UNIX o Others 5.

  • Page 93: Return Procedure

    For product repair, exchange or refund, you must: Provide evidence of original purchase Fill out the Problem Report Form (PRF) as detailed as possible for shorter product repair time. Obtain a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number from the sales representative or dealer Carefully pack the product in anti-static package, and send it, pre-paid, to the dealer.

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