PROMISE TECHNOLOGY, INC.

DC100, DC100M

Data bus:

16-bit, ISA

Size:

Half-length, full-height card

Hard drive supported:

Two IDE (AT) Interface drives

Floppy drives supported:

Two 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, or 1.44MB drives

CONNECTIONS

Function

Location

9-pin serial port 1-external

CN1

25-pin parallel port-external

CN2

34-pin control cable connector-floppy drive

J1

40-pin IDE control cable connector-internal

J2

9-pin serial port 2-internal

JP1

4-pin connector-drive active LED

JP4

USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS

Function

Location

Setting

»

Parallel port is output

JP2

closed

 

Parallel port is bi-direction

JP2

open

»

Floppy drive enabled

JP3/jumper 8

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

Floppy drive disabled

JP3/jumper 8

pins 2 & 3 closed

SERIAL PORT 1 CONFIGURATION

Port 1 (CN5)

JP3/jumper 1

JP3/jumper 2

»

COM1 (3F8) - IRQ4

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

COM3 (3E8) - IRQ4

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

Disabled

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

SERIAL PORT 2 CONFIGURATION

Port 2 (CN3)

JP3/jumper 3

JP3/jumper 4

»

COM2 (2F8h) - IRQ3

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

COM4 (2E8h) - IRQ3

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

Disabled

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

PARALLEL PORT CONFIGURATION

LPT

JP3/jumper 4

JP3/jumper 5

LPT1 enabled

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

LPT2 enabled

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

Disabled

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

CACHE CONFIGURATION

Size

Cache

512KB

(2) 256K x 9

2MB

(2) 1M x 9

8MB

(2) 4M x 9

Note: Both SIMM sockets must be occupied with identical SIMM's; i.e.: two 256KB, 1MB, or 4MB. The modules may be 8 or 9-bits wide and must be 80nsec or faster