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- Page 1 Hardware Manual 2 3 2 QUAD RS232 2.0 EDITION JUNE 1999...
- Page 2 Guarantee. FULL 36 MONTHS GUARANTEE. We guarantee your Serial Port Card for a full 36 months from purchase, parts and labour, provided it has been used in the specified manner. In the unlikely event of failure return your interface to your Dealer, with proof of purchase, who will determine whether to repair or replace this product with an equivalent unit.
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Page 3: The Layout Of This Manual
PCI Quad RS232 Layout THE LAYOUT OF THIS MANUAL Chapter 1 - PCI Quad RS232 Hardware Configuration, after a brief discussion on the RS232 standard shows how to configure the settings of the cards. Details of COM, IRQ and Shared Interrupt mechanisms are given. -
Page 4: Table Of Contents
PCI Quad RS232 Index THE LAYOUT OF THIS MANUAL... 5 CHAPTER 1 PCI QUAD RS232 HARDWARE CONFIGURATION..8 Introduction..8 PCI QUAD RS232 Card Features..8 CHAPTER 2 INSTALLING THE PC CARD THE COMPUTER..11 Serial Ca r d Installation..11 Problems! ... - Page 5 PCI Quad RS232 Settings for DOS Software... 39 I/O Address..41 Number Buffers..42 Hardware Handshake..42 Hardware Interrupt... 43 4 Port RS232 cards ... 44 Buffer Size..45 Software Handshaking..46 Driver Defaults..46 CHAPTER 5 CABLING.
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Page 6: Chapter 1 Pci Quad Rs232 Hardware Configuration
PCI Quad RS232 PCI QUAD RS232 HARDWARE CONFIGURATION. Introduction. This chapter explains how to configure the PCI QUAD RS232 in a PC compatible. This three quarter size RS232 card will work happily in any PC compatible up to and exceeding Pentium III 550 MHz class machines. - Page 7 PCI Quad RS232 Hardware Configuration The PCI QUAD RS232 has the following features: Baud Rate: 50 Baud to 115200 Baud. Word Length: 5, 6, 7 or 8 bits. Parity: Even, Odd, None, Mark or Space. Start Bit: 1 start bit always sent. Stop Bits: 1, (1.5 for 5 bit data word length) or 2.
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Page 8: Chapter 1 Page 10
PCI Quad RS232 Figure 1-1. PCI QUAD RS232 Layout PCI QUAD RS232 Specifications: Dimensions: 105 x 170 mm, 4.13 x 6.8 in I/O Connection: 4 nine pin serial ports Serial Port 1: 9 pin Male D type. Serial Port 2: 9 pin Male D type. -
Page 9: Chapter 2 Installing The Pc Card In
PCI Quad RS232 INSTALLING THE PC CARD IN THE COMPUTER. Serial Ca r d Installation. Once the card has been correctly configured it can then be installed in the PC. For the PCI card it is best to make a note of the serial port I/O address selection and if appropriate IRQ jumper settings for later use. -
Page 10: Chapter 2 Page 12
PCI Quad RS232 Figure 2-1. Removing Blanking Cover STEP 3: Choose an empty appropriate expansion slot. Remove the blanking cover protecting the slot on the PC back panel. KEEP the blanking cover screw safely for later (Figure 2-1). Figure 2-2. Inserting The PC Serial Card. STEP 4: Now insert the PC Serial card in the available slot. -
Page 11: Problems
PCI Quad RS232 Problems! If the system fails to power up normally check the following.: i.) Ensure that the PC Serial card is installed correctly. ii.) Ensure that other cards in the PC have not been upset. iii.) Ensure that the power is connected and the PC is switched If all these have been checked and the PC still does not power up then there is probably a fault in the hardware. -
Page 12: Chapter 3 Pci Quad Software Installation
PCI Quad RS232 PCI QUAD SOFTWARE INSTALLATION Introduction. This section describes the software installation procedure allowing the PCI Quad RS232 to be configured within the Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT operating systems. The setup procedures in this chapter assume that your PC has only COM1 present. -
Page 13: Windows 3.X Software Installation
PCI Quad RS232 w‚ˆs††‰„ˆÂ€w‚sÂETS!! $‡sˆ‡ÂƒtÂ!&%% qƒ„iˆwp€s†suw‡ˆs†‡ UEUTÂw‡ÂiˆÂEQÂirr†s‡‡ÂBB7 Note down IRQ, I/O address and SISR (the SISR is the Shared Interrupt Status Register, which is a read only register which returns an index value that identifies which port on the card has an interrupt awaiting servicing by the driver software.) In our example: The IRQ = 11... -
Page 14: Chapter 3 Page 16
PCI Quad RS232 Click OK, the Setup Program Main Screen is displayed: By default, all component options will be installed, selecting the "Del All" button will select all installed components for deletion and "Add All" chooses all uninstalled components for installation; options may not be changed when the components are installed. -
Page 15: Serial Port Installation
PCI Quad RS232 Serial Port Installation. From Main, select Control Panel: Click on Serial Ports: The following dialogue will be displayed: Software Installation Chapter 3 Page 17... -
Page 16: Chapter 3 Page 18
PCI Quad RS232 Figure 5-2. PCI Quad Serial Card Settings. Multiport Settings:- Each Port should have the Multiport button selected, this tells Windows 3.x that the port is one of several ports using a SISR (shared interrupt status register). The SISR Base address must be set as indicated by the BBCARDS program. -
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PCI Quad RS232 To add a COM port: Click on the add button and a Window similar to the following will be displayed: In Multiport Settings: Select the Multiport radio button. In SISR base box, enter a SISR value of 0104 (this value was returned by the BBCARDS program, as described in the above section.) In the Card’s Port field enter a value of 1, as this is the... -
Page 18: Configuring The Com Ports
PCI Quad RS232 When you have finished, click on OK. A restart message will be displayed; to save time only restart when all four ports have been added and correctly configured. Repeat the above process to add the next 3 COM ports of the PCI Quad RS232 . -
Page 19: Deleting Ports In Windows
PCI Quad RS232 Baud Rate: 9600 Data Bits: Parity: None Stop Bits: Flow: None: Change the communications Settings in the COM Ports to match the baud rate, parity settings etc. of the remote serial device. Deleting Ports in Windows. The Delete button can be used to discard the entries of ports that have been removed from the system. -
Page 20: Installing Ports In Microsoft Windows 95 & 98
PCI Quad RS232 Installing Ports In Microsoft Windows 95 & 98. Although covering the installation of the Quad RS232 into the Windows 95 operating system, the procedure is also valid, with only minor differences, in the Windows 98 Operating System. The Windows 95 environment now supports up to 255 standard serial ports, RS232, RS422, RS485 etc. -
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PCI Quad RS232 Software Installation The Wizard should then display something similar to following: Click Other Locations Chapter 3 Page 23... -
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PCI Quad RS232 Type "<Drive>:\Diskimg\SSWIN9x" drive letter of your CDROM drive. Click OK Click Finish Software Installation Where <Drive> is the Chapter 3 Page 24... -
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PCI Quad RS232 Software Installation The following dialog box will appear Click OK A "Copying Files…" window should now appear. In the Path type "<Drive>:\Diskimg\SSWIN9x" Where <Drive> is the drive letter of your CDROM drive. Click OK After copying the file, Windows 95 will then detect each of the serial ports in turn and install them as communications ports it will also detect the parallel port, and then install it as a printer port. -
Page 24: Quad Rs232 Card Settings
PCI Quad RS232 Quad RS232 Card Settings Right Click My Computer => Properties Select the Device Manager Tab Quad RS232 will appear under the "Multi-function adapters" branch, two Communications Ports and a Printer Port will appear under the "Ports (COM & LPT) branch." For most users who have 4 or less COM ports the new ports will appear as COM5 and COM6, as pictured below;... -
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PCI Quad RS232 Select the Quad RS232 card from the "Multi-Function Adapter" entry in Device Manager and click on properties to view the cards general properties; clicking on the Serial Solutions tab produces: In this window, the COM (and LPT) port assignment may be changed, simply by selecting a new COM port value from the pull down menu relevant to the port. -
Page 26: Quad Rs232 Port Settings
PCI Quad RS232 Quad RS232 Port Settings Double clicking on a Communications Port that belongs to a Quad RS232 card will display general properties window for that port (in this case COM5). produces: Settings available in these windows are: 1. Baud Rate - determines the baud rate at which the selected port operates. -
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PCI Quad RS232 5. Flow Control. 6. Advanced - clicking on this will display the following window: Settings available in this window are: Use FIFO Buffers - turns the selected ports FIFO buffer on or off. It is strongly recommended that the FIFO for both ports is left enabled. -
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PCI Quad RS232 Defaults: when clicked this button restores the advanced settings for the selected port to: Use FIFO Buffers: Receive Buffer: Transmit Buffer: 7. Restore Defaults - when clicked, resets the selected COM port to the following values: Baud Rate: Data Bits: Parity: Stop Bits:... -
Page 29: Configuring Ports In Microsoft Windows Nt 4.0
PCI Quad RS232 Configuring Ports In Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT Provides built in support for 255 standard serial ports. To setup your Quad RS232 serial card you should follow these steps. Please note that to change any kind of hardware configuration under Windows NT you must be logged in as a user with Administrator level privileges, if you do not have these please contact your system administrator. -
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PCI Quad RS232 Software Installation Click Next. Installshield will then complete software installation Chapter 3 Page 32... -
Page 31: Examining Card Configuration
PCI Quad RS232 Software Installation Examining Card Configuration. Go to Control Panel (Start/Settings/Control Panel) Double Click Serial Solutions Chapter 3 Page 33... -
Page 32: Configuring Ports
PCI Quad RS232 Software Installation You will be presented with a Serial Solutions PCI Port Configuration window: Configuring Ports. To view the settings of a port, select it and click on settings, and then click on the resources tab: Chapter 3 Page 34... -
Page 33: Uninstalling Serial Solutions Pci
PCI Quad RS232 Settings available in this window are: 1. Baud Rate - determines the baud rate at which the selected port operates. The maximum baud rate available is 115,200. 2. Data Bits. 3. Parity. 4. Stop Bits. 5. Flow Control. 6. -
Page 34: Chapter 4 Pci Quad Dos Installation Procedure
PCI Quad RS232 PCI QUAD DOS INSTALLATION PROCEDURE Determining PCI Quad Resources. Insert the card into a PC, as described in Chapter 2, power up the PC From DOS Run BBCARDS.EXE, Found on the Serial Solutions CDROM, by typing the following: <drive:>\diskimg\ssutil\pci\bbcards If you are installing from floppy disk then the path will be <drive:>\pci\bbcards... -
Page 35: Informing The Pc Of The Port Address
PCI Quad RS232 COM Base of port 2 = the Bank Address + 8hex COM Base of port 3 = the Bank Address + 10hex COM Base of port 4 = the Bank Address + 18hex The SISR Address = FFA0 The SISR Address is the Shared Interrupt Status Register, this is a read-only register indicating which of the four serial ports requires service by the driver software. - Page 36 PCI Quad RS232 AUTOEXEC.BAT file use a text editor to add the following lines to the file:- ADDRCOM3 03E8 ADDRCOM4 02E8 DOS 4, 5 and DOS 6 have features allowing access to COM3 and COM4. DOS 2 and DOS 3 only allowed access to COM1 and COM2, though some manufacturers their own DOS versions, e.g.
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Page 37: Settings For Dos Software
PCI Quad RS232 Settings for DOS Software. Most users will require that the IRQ is set to correspond to the interrupt used by their serial communications software. Note, that a serial port that is USING interrupts must not share the same IRQ line as another serial port that is USING interrupts AT THE SAME TIME, otherwise some interrupts will be missed. -
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PCI Quad RS232 DOS Installation Copyright (c) 1990 - 1993 Set address COM3 to FF40h Set address COM4 to FF48h Set address COM5 to FF50h Set address COM6 to FF58h Setup quad card, status register at FFA0th interrupt line 11 COM3 is card’s port 1 COM4 is card’s port 2 COM5 is card’s port 3... -
Page 39: I/O Address
PCI Quad RS232 The /B switch, /B 5, works as before and sets the number of buffers to 5. The 5 buffers are 1 for the (built in) COM1: port and one each for the 4 ports on the card. The /S switch, /S 512, also works as before and sets the buffer size for the 9 buffers specified. -
Page 40: Number Buffers
PCI Quad RS232 DOS Installation Number Buffers. Switch: /B n Purpose: Set number of pairs of buffers to set up. n is in range 0 to 16 and is the number of buffers to allocate. This is one factor which sets the maximum number of serial ports that can be used in interrupt mode. -
Page 41: Hardware Interrupt
PCI Quad RS232 DOS Installation /H,1 Set handshake 1 for all ports The /H switches are processed from left to right, so for example /H,2 /H1,0 /H2,1 would set COM3 to COM16 to handshake mode 2, COM1 to mode 0 and COM2 to mode 1. The hardware handshakes currently supported are: Type 0 RS232 DTR/CTS Type 1 RS422 RTS/CTS... -
Page 42: Port Rs232 Cards
PCI Quad RS232 DOS Installation When allocating interrupt lines to serial ports note that the six IRQ lines available to PC cards are traditionally designated as follows: IRQ 2 Usually Free. IRQ 3 COM2, COM3, COM4 etc. IRQ 4 COM1 IRQ 5 LPT2: IRQ 6 Floppy disk IRQ 7 LPT1... -
Page 43: Buffer Size
PCI Quad RS232 that:- port#1 is mapped as COM2 port#2 is mapped as COM3 port#3 is mapped as COM4 port#4 is mapped as COM5 For example: /L 300,7,3,4,5,6 sets up a card with a status register at 0300H. The card uses interrupt 7 as the shared interrupt line. -
Page 44: Software Handshaking
PCI Quad RS232 Software Handshaking. Switch: /X n[,xon,xoff] Purpose: Set port COMn to XON/XOFF handshaking. In this mode the hardware handshake lines are ignored and the characters XON and XOFF are used to control the flow of characters on the serial line. The optional parameters XON and XOFF are decimal numbers which are to be used as the XON and XOFF characters. -
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PCI Quad RS232 DOS Installation Hardware Handshake. All ports default to H0, the DTR/CTS handshake used by RS232 systems. Software Handshake. XON/XOFF handshaking is disabled and the characters are XON=17, XOFF=19, should software handshaking be turned on. Buffer Size. Buffers are 256 bytes long. Buffer Number. -
Page 46: Chapter 5 Rs232 Pinouts And Port Cabling
PCI Quad RS232 RS232 Pinouts & Cabling CHAPTER 5 RS232 PINOUTS AND PORT CABLING. Introduction. This chapter gives details of the 9 and 25 pin RS232 pin outs, cabling and connections, with information on how to connect the serial ports of two PCs, how to make a selftest loop back connector and the pinouts of the Quad RS232 cards. -
Page 47: Serial Port Pin Outs
PCI Quad RS232 Serial Port Pin Outs. The pinouts of the 9 & 25 pin Male D connectors are given below. Figure 5-2. Serial Port RS232 Pin Outs. 9 Pin connector: PIN 6 - DATA SET READY (DSR) PIN 7 - REQUEST TO SEND (RTS) PIN 8 - CLEAR TO SEND (CTS) PIN 9 - RING INDICATOR (RI) 25 Pin connector:... -
Page 48: Pin D Serial Port Connection To Another Pc
PCI Quad RS232 considered a black art. However, provided you have the pin outs and handshake requirements of both sides of your RS232 connection, the cross over cable becomes a matter of common sense. The cross over cable is simply to ensure that the right signals going out of one RS232 port go into the appropriate lines of the other RS232 port. - Page 49 PCI Quad RS232 Figure 5-3. 9 Pin D Serial Port To Other PC Cable. AT SERIAL PORT Side 9 PIN D CONNECTOR SC H E M AT IC R E P R E SE N TAT IO N : AC T U A L R E PR E S E N TAT IO N : RS232 Pinouts &...
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Page 50: Pin D Serial Port To A Modem
PCI Quad RS232 9 PIN D CONNECTOR S C H E M AT IC R E P R E S E N TAT IO N A C T U A L R E P R E S E N TAT IO N 9 Pin D Serial Port To A Modem. -
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PCI Quad RS232 Figure 5-4. 9 Pin D Serial Loop Back Connector. 9 PIN D CONNECTOR S C H E M AT I C R E P R E S E N TAT I O N : A C T U A L R E P R E S E N TAT I O N : RS232 Pinouts &... - Page 52 PCI Quad RS232 Figure 5-5. 9 To 25 Way Adapter. This adapter cable makes the AT style 9 pin serial port, look like the standard PC 25 pin serial port. It is NOT a cross over cable! 9 Pin AT SERIAL PORT 9 Pin Female D Connector S C H E M AT I C R E P R E S E N TAT I O N G N D...
- Page 53 Index adapter ... 52, 54 address / addresses ... 37 BBCARDS.EXE ... 14, 36 BIOS... 37 bits ...9, 11, 38, 48 cable ... 11, 12, 38, 48, 49, 52, 54 Changing COM numbers in Windows 95 ... 27 command ... 37 Configuring ports in Windows 95 &...
- Page 54 serial port ... 11, 31, 37, 38, 39, 48, 50, 52, 54 serial port address... 37 setup ... 37 SISR ... 15, 19, 20, 36, 37 stop bits... 11, 38 TXD... 50 Uninstalling Serial Solutions PCI for Windows NT... 35 utility disk...
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