Equinox Systems Megaport SS Serial I/O Board Series Installation and operating manual

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Hardware
Installation &
Reference
Manual
Megaport SS
Serial I/O Board
Series
PN 560092/B
March 1996

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interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environ-
ment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency
energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction
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harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct
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Megaport SS, Serial I/O Board Series, Hardware Manual
560092/B (March 1996)
Equinox Systems Inc.
One Equinox Way
Sunrise, Florida 33351-6709
[phone]
Fax: [phone]
BBS: [phone]
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Table of Contents iii
Manual Organization This manual is comprised of three chapters and one appendix.
Chapter 1. Overview
This chapter describes the Equinox family of Megaport SS
Boards.
Chapter 2. Installation
Chapter 2 describes the Megaport SS Board installation.
Chapter 3. Port to Device Cabling
The Megaport SS Boards support a wide variety of
terminals, printers and modems. Chapter 3 describes
the SSM cabling options.
Appendix A. Support Procedures
Appendix A describes the steps you would follow to
receive technical support and to report problems with
this documentation.
Index

Contents
1. Overview
Megaport SS Boards........................................................1-1
Software Driver ................................................................1-2
Adaptor Cable ..................................................................1-3
2. Installation
Assigning the ISA I/O Base Address ................................2-1
Address Log.....................................................................2-3
BoardInstallation .............................................................2-3
EISA System Setup..........................................................2-4
Micro Channel System Setup...........................................2-5
Installing the Round Cable ...............................................2-6
EquinoxWiring Accessories.............................................2-6
3. Port to Device Cabling
Port Signal Names ...........................................................3-2
Conversion to RS-232 Signal Names...............................3-2
Telco Connector Pinouts ..................................................3-3
Wiring to Terminal Devices...............................................3-5
DB-25 Wiring....................................................................3-7
Modular Wiring .................................................................3-8
A. Support Procedures
Technical Support Procedures ........................................ A-1
Document Support Procedures....................................... A-2
Index

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Hardware
Installation &
Reference
Manual
Megaport SS
Serial I/O Board
Series
PN 560092/B
March 1996

One Equinox Way
Sunrise, Florida 33351
Tel. [phone] FAX [phone]
BBS 954-746-0282
e-mail: [email protected]
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Overview 1-1
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Figure 1-1. Megaport SS Board
Overview
Equinox Megaport SS Boards are intelligent, high-speed (up to
115K bps) multiport boards providing high performance serial I/
O solutions for ISA, EISA and Micro Channel bus systems. All
port interfaces are standard RS-232 with modem control and
voltage surge protection.
The Megaport SS Board (shown in Figure 1-1) occupies a slot in
the host computer and provide the intelligent functions to "off-
load" the CPU serial communications processing tasks. Boards
are available for ISA, EISA and Micro Channel bus systems and
are compatible with operating systems using UNIX and LAN
applications. Table 1-1 lists the various models and characteris-
tics of the Megaport SST Boards available from Equinox.
SSP
Megaport SS
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Table 1-1. Megaport SS Boards
PART
NUMBER MODEL BUS Type Ports
950267 SSM-8I ISA 8
950242 SSM-12I ISA 12
950241 SSM-24I ISA 24
950244 SSM-12E EISA 12
950243 SSM-24E EISA 24
950246 SSM-12M Micro Channel 12
950245 SSM-24M Micro Channel 24
Software Driver All Megaport SS Boards include a software driver diskette and
installation manual. EISA and Micro Channel machines must
run their setup utility whenever a board is added or removed
from the computer. See your system documentation on how to
run these utilities. Equinox EISA .cfg and Micro Channel .adf
files can be found in the root directory of the Equinox SST DOS
Diagnostic and Configuration Software for UNIX based systems
diskette.