Dell PowerEdge 6350 User Manual page 88

B-2 Dell PowerEdge 6350 Systems User's Guide
parallel port
video connector
connector
(JVGA)
(PARALLEL)
serial port
serial port
connector
connector
(SERIAL1)
(SERIAL2)
)LJXUH % ,2 3RUWV DQG &RQQHFWRUV
The system has an autoconfiguration capability for the serial ports. This feature lets
you add an expansion card containing a serial port that has the same designation as
one of the built-in ports, without having to reconfigure the card. When the system
detects the duplicate serial port on the expansion card, it remaps (reassigns) the built-in
port to the next available port designation.
Both the new and the remapped COM ports share the same interrupt request (IRQ)
setting, as follows:
COM1, COM3: IRQ4 (shared setting)
COM2, COM4: IRQ3 (shared setting)
These COM ports have the following I/O address settings:
COM1: 3F8h
COM2: 2F8h
COM3: 3E8h
COM4: 2E8h
For example, if you add an internal modem card with a port configured as COM1, the
system then sees logical COM1 as the address on the modem card. It automatically
remaps the built-in serial port that was designated as COM1 to COM3, which shares
the COM1 IRQ setting. (Note that when you have two COM ports sharing an IRQ set-
ting, you can use either port as necessary but you may not be able to use them both at
the same time .) If you install one or more expansion cards with serial ports designated
as COM1 and COM3, the corresponding built-in serial port is disabled.
Before adding a card that remaps the COM ports, check the documentation that
accompanied your software to make sure that the software can be mapped to the
new COM port designation.
server-management
bus connector
(XSMB_OUT)
server-management
bus connector (XSMB_IN)
mouse
connector
keyboard
connector