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Alpha Microsystems AM-314 Installation Instructions Manual

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RIGHT. FROM THE START
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AM-314 Four-Port
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Serial I/O Board

Installation Instructions

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PDI-00314-00,Rev.A04

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  • Page 1: Installation Instructions

    RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START AM-314 Four-Port RIGHT. FROM THE START Serial I/O Board Installation Instructions RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT. FROM THE START RIGHT.
  • Page 2 Alpha Microsystems. This document may contain references to products covered under U.S. Patent Number 4,530,048. The following are registered trademarks of Alpha Microsystems, Santa Ana, CA 92799: AMIGOS AMOS...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    6.4 Installing the AM-314 Board ........17...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    AM-318 Eight-Port Serial I/O Board Installation Instructions. 3.0CONFIGURING YOUR AM-314 BOARDS There are no address jumpers on the AM-314 board. In fact, the only jumpers on the board are the RS422/232 jumpers. The jumpers at location W0 control the RS422/232 selection for the first port;...

  • Page 5: Installation Overview

    The installation instructions are identical for AM-1600 desktop and deskside computers; however, there are some significant differences in the procedure for installing an AM-314 board into an Eagle computer. Because of the differences, the AM-1600 (desktop and deskside) AM-314 installation instructions and the Eagle AM-314 installation instructions will be split into two sections.
  • Page 6 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board Page 3 BATTERY AM-135 BOARD AM-135 BOARD 1ST AM-314 INSTALLS AT THIS LOCATION 2ND AM-314 INSTALLS AT THIS LOCATION 3RD AM-314 INSTALLS AT THIS LOCATION 4TH AM-314 INSTALLS AT THIS LOCATION U104 U121...

  • Page 7: Installing The I/O Cables

    AM-314 board facing your computer’s rear panel. The AM-314 must be inserted into the expansion slot at a slight angle and after you feel the board settle into the slot, you rotate it into an upright position. When the AM-314 is properly positioned, the metal retainer clips at each end of the expansion slot will click into position, locking the board in place.
  • Page 8 The AM-314 board plugged into connector J17 attaches to the rear panel at locations 0, 1, 2, and 3. The AM-314 board plugged into connector J16 attaches to the rear panel at locations 4, 5, 6, and 7. The AM-314 board plugged into connector J15 attaches to the rear panel at locations 8, 9, 10, and 11.

  • Page 9: Modifying The System Initialization Command File

    Page 6 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board One end of the AM-314 40-pin I/O cable splits of into four separate cables, each with its own DB9 connector. Notice how the cable leading to each of the DB9 connectors is...
  • Page 10 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board Page 7 To illustrate how AM-314 serial ports are defined in the AMOSL.INI file, we’ll construct a sample system initialization command file based on the installation of four AM-314 boards. It’s never a good idea to directly modify your AMOSL.INI file; always create a test file;...
  • Page 11 5.Finally, you will add SETJOB statements that attach the JOBALC name to the TRMDEF name, assign memory to the job, and log the job on. An Example of our TEST.INI file with all the support statements for the four AM-314 boards is shown on the next page.
  • Page 12 SETJOB JOB15,TERM15,500K,LOGIN SETJOB JOB16,TERM16,500K,LOGIN MOUNT DSK1: MOUNT DSK2: MEMORY 0 Sample TEST.INI File When installing an AM-314 serial I/O board into an AM-135 board, make sure you use AM135 as the serial port driver in your TRMDEF statements. PDI-00314-00, Rev. A04...

  • Page 13: Finishing The Installation

    Page 10 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board 5.3Finishing the Installation Once you have created a TEST.INI file that is applicable to your configuration, you need to verify it has been correctly modified. You do this by using the MONTST command:...

  • Page 14: Am-314 Installation (Eagle Series Computers)

    INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board Page 11 6.0AM-314 INSTALLATION (EAGLE SERIES COMPUTERS) The first step in the installation process is to remove your computer’s top cover. Instructions for removing the top cover are located in the Eagle Computer Service Manual .
  • Page 15 Page 12 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board F - 2 0 7 5 4 - 0 MC1055 Your Roadrunner 030 or 040 board is mounted on the DWF-20754-00 bracket shown above. To access the board, you need to remove these four phillips-head screws.
  • Page 16 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board Page 13 ROADRUNNER 030 OR 040 BOARD MC1162 With the Roadrunner and its mounting bracket folded down out of the way, you will be able to access the main electronics board. Locating the Main Electronics Board...

  • Page 17: Eagle 300 Am-319(-00) I/O Expansion Slots

    Page 14 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board 6.1Eagle 300 AM-319(-00) I/O Expansion Slots The AM-319 board illustration shows the four serial I/O expansion slots: J8, J9, J10, and J11. As indicated in the illustration, the first I/O board installs in J8, the second in J9, the third in J10, and the fourth in J11.

  • Page 18: Eagle 200 Am-319(-10) I/O Expansion Slots

    INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board Page 15 6.2Eagle 200 AM-319(-10) I/O Expansion Slots The AM-319(-10) board illustration shows the two serial I/O expansion slots: J6 and J7. As indicated in the illustration, the first I/O board installs in J7 and the second in J6.

  • Page 19: Eagle 100 Am-137 I/O Expansion Slot

    MC1161 AM-137 I/O Expansion Slot The AM-137 board has one I/O expansion slot that will support one AM-314 board. In addition, the AM-137 board has eight standard RS232 on-board serial ports, which are attached to the rear panel using exactly the same type of cable assembly used by AM-314 boards.

  • Page 20: Installing The Am-314 Board

    AM-314 board facing your computer’s rear panel. The AM-314 must be inserted into the expansion slot at a slight angle and after you feel the board settle into the slot, you rotate it into an upright position. When the AM-314 is properly positioned, the metal retainer clips at each end of the expansion slot will click into position, locking the board in place.
  • Page 21 Page 18 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board AM-314 (installed in slot J9 on the AM-319) AM-314 (installed in slot J8 on the AM-319) The cable that extends between the AM-314 The cable that extends between the AM-314 board and the rear panel will be installed as...

  • Page 22: Eagle 200 Rear Panel I/O Configuration

    Page 19 6.6Eagle 200 Rear Panel I/O Configuration The next step in the installation process is to install the I/O cables that link your AM-314 boards to the rear panel of your computer. The next illustration shows how rear panel serial I/O connector positions correspond to where a particular I/O board is plugged into the AM-319(-10) board (i.e., J6 and J7).
  • Page 23 Page 20 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board AM-314 (installed in slot J7 on the AM-319-10) AM-314 (installed in slot J6 on the AM-319-10) The cable that extends between the AM-314 The cable that extends between the AM-314 board and the rear panel will be installed as...

  • Page 24: Eagle 100 Rear Panel I/O Configuration

    RS232 serial ports, which attach to the rear panel via standard DB9 connectors. The following illustration shows mounting locations for the eight on-board DB9 serial ports, plus the location of the four AM-314 DB9 serial ports: PDI-00314-00, Rev. A04...
  • Page 25 AM-314 (installed in slot J6 on the AM-137) Installing DB9 connectors in RJ21 cutouts requires a special adapter that is described in the AM-314 Installation Instructions . On-Board Serial Ports and AM-314 Rear Panel Connector I/O Locations PDI-00314-00, Rev. A04...

  • Page 26: Installing Am-314 Db9 Connectors On The Rear Panel

    Page 23 6.8Installing AM-314 DB9 Connectors on the Rear Panel 1.Plug one 40-pin I/O cable into each of the AM-314 boards. The 40-pin connector on the AM-314 board has an embossed arrow showing the pin-1 location. Make sure the red stripe on the I/O cable aligns with the embossed arrow on the connector.

  • Page 27: System Initialization Command File (Eagle 300 And 200)

    (base 8) numbering system. The octal number used corresponds directly to what slot on the AM-319 a particular I/O board is plugged into. The following table shows the AM-314 octal port numbers for each of the four I/O expansion slots on the AM-319 board:...
  • Page 28 5.Finally, you will add SETJOB statements that attach the JOBALC name to the TRMDEF name, assign memory to the job, and log the job on. An Example of our TEST.INI file with all the support statements for the four AM-314 boards is shown on the next page.
  • Page 29 SETJOB JOB15,TERM15,500K,LOGIN SETJOB JOB16,TERM16,500K,LOGIN MOUNT DSK1: MOUNT DSK2: MEMORY 0 Sample TEST.INI File When installing an AM-314 serial I/O board into an AM-319 board, make sure you use AM314 as the serial port driver in your TRMDEF statements. PDI-00314-00, Rev. A04...

  • Page 30: System Initialization Command File (Eagle 100)

    1.You need to make sure the total number of jobs assigned to the JOBS statement is increased by the number of new serial ports being added to the computer. The example configuration has one AM-314 board, plus the eight on-board serial ports, which is total of PDI-00314-00, Rev. A04...
  • Page 31 Page 28 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board 12 serial ports. For our example configuration, we will set the JOBS statement to 30, which will allow for all the serial ports, the Eagle’s two on-board parallel ports, and some extras to support spawned jobs.
  • Page 32 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board Page 29 An Example of our TEST.INI file with all the support statements for the on-board serial ports and the AM-314 board is shown below: JOBS 30 JOBALC JOB1,JOB2,JOB3,JOB4,JOB5,JOB6,JOB7,JOB8,JOB9,JOB10 Update JOBS and JOBALC statements...

  • Page 33: Finishing The Installation

    RETURN 7.0DB-9 CONNECTOR SIGNALS FOR RS-232 AND RS-422 The following table shows the signal-to-pin orientation for each of the DB-9 connectors used in external serial I/O interfaces to the AM-314 board. Table 1. Rear Panel DB-9 Connector Signals Direction RS-232 Signal Name RS-422 Signal Name N/C—no connection...

  • Page 34: Terminal Cables

    INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board Page 31 8.0TERMINAL CABLES This section tells you which pins to connect to construct cables for particular terminals supported by Alpha Micro. The AM-60, AM-62, and AM-70 terminals are all RS-232 devices and use the same cabling.

  • Page 35: Terminal And Rs-422 Cabling

    Page 32 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board 8.1AM-65 Terminal and RS-422 Cabling To use the AM-65 as an RS-422 device, you must use an RS-422 interconnecting cable and set the jumper block of the serial port to RS-422. Then, the AM-65 must be set to RS-422 in setup mode.
  • Page 36 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board Page 33 Table 4. Pinouts for Workstation-to-Computer Cable IBM PC/AT and Compatibles Workstation Computer End Serial I/O Port DB-9 Connector SIGNAL PIN# DIRECTION PIN# SIGNAL -----> <----- <----> -----> <----- <-- <-- Pins 1, 6 and 8 on the workstation connector are jumpered.

  • Page 37: Printer Cables

    Page 34 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: AM-314 Four Port I/O Board 9.0PRINTER CABLES This section provides the specific cable requirements for the printers most frequently con- nected to the Alpha Micro computer system. You can purchase the appropriate cables from Alpha Micro, or construct them according to the following specifications.

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