PROMISE TECHNOLOGY, INC.

DRIVECACHE DC2032

Data bus: 16-bit, ISA

Size: Full-length, full-height card

Hard drives supported: Four IDE(AT) drives

Floppy drives supported: Two 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, or 1.44MB

One floppy tape drive

Maximum heads/cyl.: 16 heads and 2048 cylinders

CONNECTIONS

Function

Location

9-pin serial port (COM1/3)-external

CN1

25-pin parallel port (LPT1/2)-external

CN2

40-pin IDE(AT) control cable connector-hard drive 0 and 1

J1

40-pin IDE(AT) control cable connector-hard drive 2 and 3

J2

34-pin control cable connector-floppy drive

J3

34-pin control cable connector-floppy tape drive

J4

4-pin connector-drive active LED

JP1

9-pin serial port (COM2/4)-internal

JP11

USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS

Function

Location

Setting

»

Floppy drive enabled

JP9

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

Floppy drive disabled

JP9

pins 2 & 3 closed

»

Parallel port (CN12) set to LPT1

JP10

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

Parallel port (CN12) set to LPT2

JP10

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

Parallel port disabled

JP10

open

INTERRUPT REQUEST

IRQ

JP2/jumper 2

JP2/jumper 3

JP3/jumper 1

JP3/jumper 2

JP3/jumper 3

 

IRQ12

closed

open

closed

open

open

»

IRQ14

open

open

open

closed

open

 

IRQ15

open

closed

open

open

closed

Note:JP2/1, JP2/4 and JP3/4 are Not used and should not be altered.

SERIAL PORT CONFIGURATION

CN10 (external)

CN11 (internal)

JP5/jumper 1

JP5/jumper 2

COM1

COM2

open

open

COM3

COM2

closed

open

COM1

COM4

open

closed

COM3

COM4

closed

closed

BIOS ADDRESS

Address

JP7/jumper 1

JP7/jumper 2

JP7/jumper 3

JP7/jumper 4

 

C800h

closed

open

closed

closed

 

CA00h

closed

open

closed

open

 

CC00h

closed

open

open

closed

 

CE00h

closed

open

open

open

 

D000h

open

closed

closed

closed

 

D200h

open

closed

closed

open

 

D400h

open

closed

open

closed

 

D600h

open

closed

open

open

»

D800h

open

open

closed

closed

 

DA00h

open

open

closed

open

 

DC00h

open

open

open

closed

 

DE00h

open

open

open

open

ON-BOARD CACHE CONFIGURATION

Size

Bank 0

Bank 1

512k

(2) 256K x 9

NONE

1M

(2) 256K x 9

(2) 256K x 9

2M

(2) 1M x 9

NONE

2.5M

(2) 256K x 9

(2) 1M x 9

4M

(2) 1M x 9

(2) 1M x 9

8M

(2) 4M x 9

NONE

8.5M

(2) 256K x 9

(2) 4M x 9

10M

(2) 256K x 9

(2) 4M x 9

16M

(2) 4M x 9

(2) 4M x 9