Black Box IC133C-R2, IC187C manual Table of Contents

CONTENTS

1. Specifications

7

2. Introduction

8

2.1

Overview

8

2.2

What’s Included

8

2.3

Factory Default Settings

9

3. Card Setup

10

3.1 RS-485 Enable Modes

10

3.2

Address and IRQ Selection

12

3.3

Line Termination

12

3.4

Electrical Interface Selection

14

3.5 Clock Modes

15

3.6

Baud Rates and Divisors for the “Div 1” Mode

16

3.7

Baud Rates and Divisors for the “Div 2” Mode

18

4. Installation

20

4.1

Setting Up the Operating System

20

4.1.1 Windows 3.1x

20

4.1.2 Windows 95/98

20

4.1.3 Windows NT

21

4.1.4 DOS

21

4.1.5 Other Operating Systems

21

4.2

Installing the Hardware

21

5. Troubleshooting

22

5.1

The Serial Utility Diskette

22

5.2

Calling Black Box

23

5.3

Shipping and Packaging

23

Appendix A: Interrupt Handling

24

A.1 The Purpose and Early History of Interrupts

24

A.2 Why Use an ISP?

25

Appendix B: Connector Pinouts

26

B.1 RS-232

26

B.2 RS-422/485

27