Xycom XVME-956 Series Manual page 99

Chapter 6 - 16-Bit Ethernet Installation (XVME-956/411)
6.3 S O F T W A R E CONFIGURATION
Most XVME-956/411 setup options are stored in an on-card EEPROM. This includes the following:
I/O address, interrupt line selection, Boot PROM enable, size, and location, selection of compatibility
mode, and various timing options.
Two DOS setup utility programs are supplied with the XVME-956/411. The programs SET4I29 and
SHOW4I29 allow you to change these parameters and display the current card setup.
SET4I29
This utility program sets the XVME-956/411 EEPROM options. SET4I29 is invoked with two
command line parameters, a port address and a file name:
S E T 4 I 2 9 3 0 0 W D 8 0 1 3 . C F G
The port address is 300 the first time SET4I29 is used. The reason is that all XVME-956/411 cards are
shipped from Xycom configured for that location, and all port addresses are in hexadecimal. Once a
XVME-956/411 card has been configured to a different port address, you need to specify the new port
address when running SET4I29.
Because it is possible to forget the port location of a XVME-956/411 card, the port address on the
command line can be replaced with 'S'. This causes SET4I29 to look for the XVME-956/411 card by
probing all of the possible XVME-956/411 I/O addresses. Yo u should not use the (S)earch option if
you know the XVME-956/411 port address, as it is not guaranteed to work in all cases.
The second command line parameter is the name of the configuration file. T h e configuration file is an
ASCII file containing the configuration parameters. The XVME-956/411 distribution disk has two
example configuration files, NE2000 . CFG and WD8013 . CFG. Yo u should use these files as a
starting point to create your own configuration files. T h e format of the configuration file is very
simple—each line of the configuration file consists of a parameter name followed by a parameter value.
If a parameter name is not specified in the configuration file, that parameter will be set to the default
value shown in the following table.
Parameter
MAINMODE
MAINMODE sets the emulation mode of the XVME-XVME-956/411 to I/O mapped (NE2000) or
memory mapped (WD8013) operation.
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Table 6-2. M A I N M O D E Parameter
Parameter Values
IOMAPPED
MEMMAPPED
Default
IOMAPPED
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