Mass Storage; Floppy Drive; Hard Drive; Serial I/O Connectors - adept technology MV User Manual

Chapter 8

Mass Storage

Floppy Drive

The 1.4 MB floppy drive can access both double-density (720 KB) and
high-density (1.44 MB) floppy disks. Refer to the
Guide for information on formatting floppy disks.

Hard Drive

The 1.4 GB internal hard drive is located inside the SIO board. (The capacity of the
hard drive is subject to change.)

Serial I/O Connectors

There are three RS-232 serial ports for general-purpose serial I/O functions. These
global serial ports are referred to as devices
These serial ports can be accessed via the VME bus by any Adept system
processor configured to run V
on the AWC board and one port on the CIP.)
The connectors are DB-9P male 9-pin connectors that are pin-compatible with the
serial connector for AT-compatible computers; the signal and pin information are
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serial operation, it may be more efficient to use the serial port(s) located on the
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