KOUWELL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION

KW-556F

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

40-pin IDE(AT) Interface connector

CN1

34-pin control cable connector - floppy drive

CN2

16-pin game port - internal

CN3

10-pin serial port (COM2/3/4) - internal

CN4

9-pin serial port (COM1/3/4) - external

CN5

25-pin parallel port (LPT1/2/3) - external

CN6

2-pin connector - Drive active LED

JP2

USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS

Function

Location

Setting

»

Hard drive enabled

JP7/D

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

Hard drive disabled

JP7/D

pins 1 & 2 closed

»

Floppy drive enabled

JP7/E

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

Floppy drive disabled

JP7/E

pins 1 & 2 closed

USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS (CONTINUED)

Function

Location

Setting

»

Parallel Port is uni-directional

JP4

closed

 

Parallel Port is bi-directional

JP4

open

»

Hard drive port address is 1F0-1F7,3F6 & 3F7h

JP7/A

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

Hard drive port address is 170-177, 376 & 377h

JP7/A

pins 2 & 3 closed

»

Floppy drive booting sequence is A:/B:

JP7/B

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

Floppy drive booting sequence is B:/A:

JP7/B

pins 1 & 2 closed

»

Floppy drive port address is 3F0-3F7h

JP7/C

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

Floppy drive port address is 370-377h

JP7/C

pins 2 & 3 closed

SERIAL PORT 1 CONFIGURATION

Setting

JP6/A

JP6/B

»

COM1

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

COM3

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

COM4

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

Disabled

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

SERIAL PORT 1 INTERRUPT SELECT

Setting

JP8/A

JP8/B

JP8/C

»

IRQ4

closed

open

open

 

IRQ3

open

closed

open

 

IRQ5

open

open

closed

SERIAL PORT 2 CONFIGURATION

Setting

JP6/C

JP6/D

»

COM2

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

COM3

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

COM4

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

Disabled

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

SERIAL PORT 2 INTERRUPT SELECT

Setting

JP8/D

JP8/E

JP8/F

»

IRQ3

closed

open

open

 

IRQ4

open

closed

open

 

IRQ5

open

open

closed

PARALLEL PORT CONFIGURATION

LPT

JP6/E

JP6/F

»

LPT1(378h)

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 2 & 3 closed

 

LPT2(278h)

pins 2 & 3 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

 

Disabled

pins 1 & 2 closed

pins 1 & 2 closed

PARALLEL PORT INTERRUPT SELECT

IRQ

JP8/G

JP8/H

»

IRQ7

closed

open

 

IRQ5

open

closed

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