Advantech PCA-6157 User manual

PCA-6157
Full-size Pentium®
PCI CPU Card

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Part No. 2006157030 3rd Edition
Printed in Taiwan. August 1996

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Contents
Chapter 1 Hardware Configuration ........................ 1
Introduction............................................................................ 2
Specifications........................................................................ 3
Jumpers and connectors ........................................................ 6
SIMM memory modules....................................................... 8
Initial inspection..................................................................... 9
Jumper settings .................................................................... 10
How to set jumpers ............................................................. 10
CPU type and clock speed (JP1, JP16) ............................... 10
L2 cache size select (JP2, JP3, JP4) ................................... 11
Keyboard or PS/2 mouse select (JP6)................................. 11
Onboard I/O chip enable/disable select (JP7)..................... 11
BIOS Chip select (JP8, JP9) ............................................... 12
L1 cache size select (JP12) ................................................. 12
ISA bus clock select (JP14) ................................................ 12
Monitor mode select (JP15)................................................ 13
Watchdog timer – system reset/IRQ11 (JP19) ................... 13
Parallel port settings (JP21) ................................................ 14
SCSI Function Select (JP22, JP23)..................................... 14
Board layout ......................................................................... 15
Chapter 2 Connecting Peripherals ....................... 17
PCI EIDE hard drive connections (CN1, CN4).................. 19
Floppy drive connections (CN2) ........................................ 19
Parallel port (CN3) ............................................................. 20
SCSI-II internal connector (CN5)....................................... 20
Keyboard connectors (J6, CN6) ......................................... 20
PS/2 connector (CN6)......................................................... 20
Reset switch (J1)................................................................. 21
External speaker (J2) .......................................................... 21
Cooling fan power connector (J3) ...................................... 21

EIDE SCSI active LED (J4) ............................................... 21
Power LED and keylock (J5).............................................. 22
SMI switch (J7)................................................................... 22
CPU temperature alarm output (J8).................................... 23
Serial ports (COM1, COM2) .............................................. 24
Chapter 3 Power-up ............................................... 25
Chapter 4 AWARD BIOS Setup ................................ 27
System test and initialization .............................................. 28
System configuration verification ...................................... 28
AWARD BIOS Setup........................................................... 29
Entering setup ..................................................................... 29
Standard CMOS setup ........................................................ 30
BIOS features setup ............................................................ 31
CHIPSET features setup ..................................................... 36
Power management setup ................................................... 37
PCI slot configuration......................................................... 38
Load BIOS defaults ............................................................ 39
PNP configuration setup ..................................................... 39
Load setup defaults ............................................................. 39
Password setting ................................................................. 39
IDE HDD auto detection..................................................... 39
IDE low level format .......................................................... 39
Save & Exit setup ............................................................... 40
Exit without saving ............................................................. 40
Chapter 5 SCSI Drive Installation .......................... 41
General Description ............................................................. 42
Overview............................................................................. 43
Before you begin................................................................. 45
Device drivers for DOS/Windows ...................................... 46
Introduction......................................................................... 46
About the ProSCSl installation utility ................................ 47
MINICAM.SYS .................................................................. 48
DOSCAM.SYS ................................................................... 51

SCSIDISK.SYS .................................................................. 56
CDROM.SYS ..................................................................... 61
ASPICAM. SYS ................................................................. 64
Important additional information ....................................... 66
Device Drivers for OS/2....................................................... 67
Introduction......................................................................... 67
OS2CAM.ADD................................................................... 67
Device Drivers for SCO UNIX............................................ 75
Introduction......................................................................... 76
SCO UNIX 3.2v4x.............................................................. 75
The NCR CAM3 SCSI configuration tool.......................... 78
Important additional information ....................................... 89
Device Drivers for NetWare................................................ 90
Introduction......................................................................... 90
NetWare v3.1x, and v4.x .................................................... 90
Important additional information ....................................... 99
Device Drivers for Windows NT....................................... 100
Introduction....................................................................... 100
NCRSDMS.SYS ............................................................... 101
Important additional information ..................................... 104
Appendix A Programming the
Watchdog timer ................................. 107
Appendix B POST LEDs ............................................ 109

CHAPTER
1
Hardware
Configuration
This chapter gives background information
on the PCA-6157. It then shows you how to
configure the card to match your applica-
tion and prepare it for installation into your
PC.
Sections include:
• Card specifications
• Safety precautions
• Jumper settings
• Board layout

2PCA-6157 User's Manual
Introduction
The PCA-6157 industrial grade CPU card uses Intel's highly
acclaimedPentiumP54C type 75/90/100/120/133/150/166 MHz CPUs
and 82437FX "Triton" chipset. The card works with standard ISA
and/or ISA/PCI bus passive backplanes.
In addition to the Pentium's 16 KB on-chip cache memory, the card
hasan extra256 KB2nd-level write-backcache. ThePCA-6157 also
supports 8 to 128 MB of on-board DRAM. It has two PCI EIDE
interfaces (for up to four devices), a PCI SCSI-II interface, and an
FDD interface (for up to two devices). Other features include two
RS-232serial ports (16C550UARTswith 16-byte FIFOorcompati-
ble) and one enhanced parallel port (supports EPP/ECP). The card's
high speed PCI EIDE controller supports mode 4 operation, which
provides data transfer rates of over 16 MB/sec. and allows drive
capacities of up to 8.4 GB for connecting tape drives, CD-ROMs,
optical devices, etc.
In addition, the EBM3x-JA has a temperature sensor for the
Pentium CPU. It automatically turns on the CPU cooling fan and
outputs a CPU overheat alarm digital signal when the CPU tempera-
ture exceeds the upper-limit value set by BIOS. This ensures CPU
card reliability and lengthens CPU life.
The PCA-6157's 32-bit passive PCI interface provides burst transfer
speeds of up to 132 MB per second. The interface eliminates data
transfer congestion and improves performance of high bandwidth
applications such as graphics, video and LANs. The card also
provides a standard ISA bus interface for non-PCI adapter cards,
so you can still take advantage of the card's powerful on-board
PCI-EIDE and PCI SCSI-II controller when the card is plugged into
an ISA bus passive backplane. You can also plug the PCA-6157
into a PCI/ISA passive backplane for use with high performance
PCI-bus I/O cards.
The PCA-6157L does not have SCSI chip and temperature sensor.

Chapter 1 Hardware configuration 3
The card has power on self test (POST) LEDs for quick and simple
fault analysis. A backup of CMOS data is stored in the EEPROM,
which protects data even after the battery has failed. The industri-
al-grade construction of this card allows it to withstand continuous
operation in harsh environments at temperatures up to 140°F
(60° C). Also included is a 12-level watchdog timer, which resets the
CPU or generates an interrupt if a program cannot be executed
normally. This enables reliable operation in stand-alone or unat-
tended environments.
Specifications
System
• CPU:
IntelPentium 75/90/100/120/133/150/166MHz
•Chipset:
Intel 82437FX "Triton" chipset for Pentium processor
• BIOS:
AWARD, on-board POST (Power On Self Test) diagnostic
function
• Businterface: PCI and ISA (PC/AT) bus
• Databus: 64-bit
• Processingability: 64-bit
• Busspeed:
ISAbus:6.25~11 MHz
PCIbus: ½ CPUclock
•Cachememorysize:256KB
• DMAchannels:7
• Interruptlevels:15