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File/Utilities diskette containing formatting software and SRAM drivers. The software is explained in detail in the XFORMAT Software User’s Manual that accompanies the diskette. Page 1 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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PURPOSE OR USE, TITLE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. Repair or replacement as provided above shall be the Purchaser's sole and exclusive remedy and RadiSys' exclusive liability for any breach of warranty. Page iii Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
NOTE: The EPC-27 requires 200 ft/min airflow for 60°C operation. For configurations with no airflow, the maximum operating temperature for the EPC-27 is 43°C. See Appendix A for mechanical dimensions. Page 2 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
EPC into the card guides. Firmly press the EPC front panel to ensure that the module is properly seated in the subplane and secure it with the thumb- screws. Page 3 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Once the entry has been changed to appear as desired, use the up and down arrow to move to the next field. Page 4 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
1.44 MB floppy disk drive. Other options include 360K, 720K, 1.2 MBytes, and 2.88 Mbytes. If no drive is installed, the proper setting is NOT INSTALLED. Page 5 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
RadiSys hardware. To see the detailed characteristics of the device or to change the device, choose the IDE Adapter 0 Master Sub-Menu to configure the fixed disk. The following screen displays: Page 6 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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“Autotype” feature, then select “User” for the Type and enter the correct drive values for cylinders, heads, and sectors/track from the label attached by RadiSys at the factory. Page 7 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Use this option to set the system to delay booting for a time period in seconds that you set. This allows for long start up times on boot devices that spin up slowly. The default is zero. Page 8 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
26A/27 hardware and BIOS is booting from a Flash ROMdisk. For more information on booting from a Flash ROMdisk, refer to setups in the Advanced Menu and the XFORMAT Software User’s Manual. Page 9 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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When you have completed the Boot Options Menu, exit back to the Main BIOS Setup Menu using the ESC key and complete the Keyboard Features Sub-Menu. Page 10 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Keyboard auto-repeat rate: Use this option to set the auto-repeat rate if holding a key down on the keyboard. The rates are from 2-30 per second. Page 11 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
COM ports. This does not configure Ethernet, video, or Flash memory. For more information, turn to the section concerning the Integrated Peripherals Sub-Menu. Page 12 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Please note that you cannot have an IDE drive if the resident Flash memory is the boot device. For more information, refer to “About Drive Letter Assignment”. Page 13 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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The term “Memory Shadow” refers to the technique of copying information from ROM into RAM and accessing it in this alternate memory location. The Memory Shadow Sub-Menu is discussed below. Page 14 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Flash ROM disk. When this ROM extension is installed, it is automatically shadowed. To exit this menu, press the ESC key. You return to the Main Menu. This completes the setups for the Advanced Menu. Page 15 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
CMOS. The EPC-26A/27 will configure the EXM bus according to the number of EXM slots selected. The default slot configuration is for 12 slots. 9 10 Page 16 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
2 configuration data. When you are finished with this menu, press the right arrow key to move to the Exit Menu, or press ESC. Page 17 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Note that while most EXM hardware reference manuals depict a different setup BIOS from the EPC-26A/27, the ID/OB1/OB2 information is valid. Page 18 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Load Previous Values Save Current Values Help Select Item -/+ Change Values F9 Setup Defaults Exit Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu Previous Values Figure 2-11. Exit Menu. Page 19 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Save Current values Use this option to save the edits you have made during this session. You do not exit, and you can resume editing. Page 20 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
SIMM memory modules that are delivered in this product in the socket of another product that uses 5V memory devices. This could cause permanent damage to the memory devices. Page 21 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
(i.e. for extended memory managers, Ethernet, etc.) or may be used by DOS as upper memory blocks if an extended memory manager driver is installed. Page 22 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Should the battery fail, you may obtain and install a replacement. The figure below illustrates how to change the battery. Page 23 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Force BIOS Update Reserved for future use. Use to enable writing to flash Do not use Forces a hosted re-flash of the BIOS. Must jumper H3 also. Page 24 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
SRAM. Note that the Flash/SRAM included with the EPC is compatible with the EXM-2A architecture. If this option is included, the EPC appears to software as though there were an integrated EXM-2A in the system. Page 25 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
815D. This will inhibit a spurious timer event from occurring just after enabling the timer. Watchdog Register 815D 7 - 2 Unused Reset enable Page 26 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
However, the operating system will be reloaded. This type of reset typically only works under DOS. Additional abnormal conditions that cause a reset Low Vcc No DRAM refresh signal from the micromonitor Page 27 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
= 5V min @ 3K load to GND. COM1 is defined in the following table: Pin Signal Pin Signal Ring indicator Ground Table 4. COM1 DB9 Pin-out. Page 29 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Pins B1 through B58 are on the solder side of the board with pin B1at the bottom of the board. More information about the EXM interface is available upon request. Page 30 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Verify that +5V power is good and will not run power-on self- power. that the EPC is fully seated. test. Hardware failure. Replace the EPC. Page 31 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
One of the entries in the CMOS RAM is incorrect. Solution(s): Run the BIOS setup program to determine what is wrong, and correct it. If the error occurs repeatedly, the EPC's battery has failed. Page 32 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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If you are not using an IDE drive, enter the BIOS setup program. Enter the Fixed disk menu. Change the drive type to match the device being used. Page 33 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Solution(s): Select a different logical drive. If you are trying to access a hard disk, you may need to create the logical partition. Page 34 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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This can also occur if the hard disk is partitioned and one partition is set active, but the partition is not formatted. Format the partition using the utilities supplied with your operating system. Page 35 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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A C: drive exists but is not set active. Solution(s): Run your operating system disk partitoning program (like FDISK) and set the primary partition active. Page 36 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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The battery-backed TOD clock is incorrect. Solution(s): Run the BIOS setup program to determine what is wrong, and correct it. If the error occurs repeatedly, the EPC's battery has failed. Page 37 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
The first two registers are standard read/write EXM registers for device identification and configuration. The EPC-26A/27 responds to accesses to ports 100h and 102h only if its EXM expansion interface line -EXMID is as- Page 39 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Low-Middle, High-Middle, and High registers (and the lower address register, if the previous string read/write to flash/SRAM was not 256 bytes in length) before issuing another 256 byte string read/write. Page 40 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
The SRAMDISK.SYS driver issues a warning before continuing. The remainder of the bits in register 8387 are undefined. Page 41 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
The BBS operates at up to 14400 baud. Connect using standard settings of eight data bits, no parity, and one stop bit (8, N, 1). The telephone number is (503) 646-8290. Page 45 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
(functional testing) of a product either in or out of warranty, and procurement of spare parts. Page 46 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
Any ancillary information that might be helpful with the debugging process will be appreciated. Other Countries Contact the sales organization from which you purchased your RadiSys product for service and support. Page 48 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Letters that display include S (system file), H (hidden file) and R (read-only). To prepare the hidden file MSDOS.SYS for copying, type either of the following: ATTRIB -s -h MSDOS.SYS ATTRIB MSDOS.SYS -s -h Page D1 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Be sure to re-run ATTRIB after copying the files to the destination disk to reset the system files. Page D2 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Create a directory on the C: drive called C:\EPC (or another name you choose). Copy the files from the distribution diskette to the C:\EPC directory. Page E1 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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It is possible to create a bootable disk image from a non-bootable source drive. Refer to Appendix D for details. This flag is for use with flash disks only. Page E2 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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XFORMAT is used in a batch file where the reboot command is at the end of the batch file. Page E3 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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Formats the flash memory and copies all files from device A: to the flash (including subdirectories). The EPC will not be bootable if not formatted with the /S or /B flag. XFORMAT /p=0 /N=6 /b=d: C:\FLASH Page E4 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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2.5V, an error message displays for a few seconds before continuing. To load the SRAMDISK.SYS driver, edit the CONFIG.SYS file and insert the following line: DEVICE=[path]SRAMDISK.SYS /[slot] Page E5 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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The SRAMDISK.SYS driver must compute the same checksum in order for the sector read to be successful. Corrupt sectors may be repaired with standard disk tools such as Norton Utilities. Page E6 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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INVALID SOURCE PATHNAME Error Message Explanation XFORMAT could not find the directory specified as the source pathname. Resolution Ensure that the source pathname exists. Page E7 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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CONFIG.SYS does not contain enabled flash memory. Resolution Enable the flash in the EXM Setup Screen, or verify that the flash is listed in the correct slot. Page E8 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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EXM Setup Screen. Error Message UNRECOGNIZED FLAG Explanation A mis-spelled or illegal flag was used. Resolution Check the command line to ensure only legal flags are used. Page E9 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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"read only" media, such as CD-ROM disks. DOS functions such as COPY and XCOPY will operate correctly when copying from the flash disk. Page E10 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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DOS COPY command to copy the files from the \30505 directory. Page F1 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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16) to allow writing to the flash device. Remove this jumper after programming since aberrant programs may write to the flash device and corrupt the BIOS. To update the BIOS in self-hosted mode, follow the instructions below: Page F2 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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8 KBytes fill file for unused portion of flash device FILL16.BIN 16 KBytes fill file for unused portion of flash device EPC24.BIN 64 KBytes EPC System BIOS Page F3 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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NEWBIOS /S To reverse the process and load the saved CMOS parameters in the flash memory back into CMOS, type the following: NEWBIOS /L Page F4 Artisan Technology Group - Quality Instrumentation ... Guaranteed | (888) 88-SOURCE | www.artisantg.com...
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