KOUWELL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION

KW-559A

Data bus:

32-bit VL-bus

Size:

Three-quarter length, half-height card

Hard drive supported:

Two IDE(AT) drives

Floppy drives supported:

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

CONNECTIONS

Function

Location

34-pin cable connector - floppy drive

J1

40-pin primary IDE(AT) connector

J2

25-pin parallel port - external

J3

9-pin serial port 1 - external, 10-pin serial port 1 internal

JP1

10-pin serial port 2 - internal

JP4

4-pin connector - drive active LED

JP7

USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS

Function

Location

Setting

Parallel port is unidirectional

JP2

closed

Parallel port is bi-directional

JP2

open

Floppy drive interface enabled

JP3/7

pins 1 & 2 closed

Floppy drive interface disabled

JP3/7

pins 2 & 3 closed

Parallel port IRQ 7 select

JP3/8

pins 2 & 3 closed

Parallel port IRQ 5 select

JP3/8

pins 1 & 2 closed

DRIVE SPEED CONFIGURATION

Speed

JP6/1

JP6/2

0

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

1

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

2

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

SERIAL PORT 1 INTERRUPT SELECTION

IRQ

JP8/1

pins 1 & 2

JP8/2

pins 1 & 2

JP8/3

pins 1 & 2

JP8/4

pins 1 & 2

IRQ3

closed

open

open

open

IRQ4

open

closed

open

open

IRQ5

open

open

closed

open

IRQ9

open

open

open

closed

SERIAL PORT 2 INTERRUPT SELECTION

IRQ

JP8/1

pins 2 & 3

JP8/2

pins 2 & 3

JP8/3

pins 2 & 3

JP8/4

pins 2 & 3

IRQ3

closed

open

open

open

IRQ4

open

closed

open

open

IRQ5

open

open

closed

open

IRQ9

open

open

open

closed

PARALLEL PORT ADDRESS SELECTION

Address

JP3/5

JP3/6

278h

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

378h

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

3BCh

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

Disabled

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

SERIAL PORT 1 ADDRESS SELECTION

COM

JP3/1

JP3/2

COM1 (3F8h)

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

COM3 (3E8h)

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

COM4 (2E8h)

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

Disabled

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

SERIAL PORT 2 ADDRESS SELECTION

COM

JP3/3

JP3/4

COM2 (2F8h)

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

COM3 (3E8h)

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

COM4 (2E8h)

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

Disabled

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed