Quatech user manual Using the MPAP-100 with Syncdrive

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6 Using the MPAP-100 with Syncdrive

Syncdrive is a synchronous communications software driver package designed to aid users of Quatech synchronous communication hardware in the development of their application software. Syncdrive is included free of charge with all Quatech MPA-series synchronous communication products. The MPAP-100 is backward-compatible with software written for Quatech ISA-bus synchronous adapters and it operates with Syncdrive.

Syncdrive, however, is not aware of the plug-and-play nature of PCMCIA cards. A Syncdrive application will expect to see the MPAP-100 at a specific base address and a specific IRQ. When using Syncdrive with PCMCIA cards, it is necessary to obtain the base address and IRQ assigned to the card by the PCMCIA Card Services and provide those values in the channel configuration array.

For DOS, Windows 3.1, or OS/2, the client driver or enabler supplied with the card must be used to configure the MPAP-100 with the settings expected by the Syncdrive application before the application tries to use the card.

Under Windows 95/98, the card is automatically configured. To find the settings, click the right mouse button on the My Computer icon and select Properties. Select the Device Manager tab and double-click the card's entry under the "Synchronous Communication" section. Select the Resources tab to see the card's base address and IRQ. Use these settings with the Syncdrive application. Windows 95/98 may allow changes to the settings if the "Use Automatic Settings" box is unchecked.

Syncdrive does not receive notifications of card insertion or card

removal events. Therefore it cannot support hot swapping without the user taking some kind of action to force the Syncdrive application to initialize a newly-inserted card.

A future release of Syncdrive may permit automatic configuration by retrieving hardware settings from the MPAP-100 client driver. For now, the user should consider the client driver to be a replacement for jumper settings; it sets the card in a predetermined configuration before the Syncdrive application is started.

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Contents for PCMCIA Card Standard compatible machines MPAP-100 RS-232 PCMCIA SYNCHRONOUS ADAPTERUsers Manual QUATECH, INCPRODUCT DESCRIPTION Single Channel PCMCIA RS-232-D WARRANTY INFORMATIONMPAP-100 Synchronous Communications AdapterCopyright 2001 Quatech, Inc 5.4 Monitoring The Status Of PCMCIA Cards 5.2.1 Tying a configuration to a particular socket5.3 OS/2 Client Driver Configuration Examples Table of ContentsAccessing the SCC while FIFOs are enabled Table of Contents10.3.1 Using channel A for both transmit and receive 22.1.4 Older Versions of Card and Socket Services1 Introduction 1.1 System Requirements2 Hardware Installation 3 DOS / Windows 3.x Software Installation DEVICE=drive\path\MPAP1CL.SYS S#,B#,I#,C ... S#,B#,I#,C 3.1.1 DOS client driver installation3.1 MPAP-100 Client Driver for DOS 3.1.2 Auto Fallback configuration 3.1.3 Hot SwappingPage DEVICE=C\MPAP-100\MPAP1CL.SYS b300,c 3.2 DOS Client Driver examplesDEVICE=C\MPAP-100\MPAP1CL.SYS DEVICE=C\MPAP-100\MPAP1CL.SYS s0,b300,i53.3.3 Configuring a card 3.3 MPAP-100 Enabler for DOS3.3.1 DOS Enabler Installation 3.3.2 Hot Swapping is not supportedMPAP1EN S#,B#,I#,W#,C 3.3.4 Releasing a cards configuration MPAP1EN S#,R,W#MPAP1EN.EXE s1,b300,i3,wd8 3.4 DOS Enabler ExamplesMPAP1EN.EXE s0,b300,i5,c MPAP1EN.EXE s0,r4 Windows 95/98 Installation 4.1 Using the Add New Hardware WizardPage Page 4.2 Viewing Resources with Device Manager 4.3 Configuration Options 5.1 System Requirements 5 OS/2 Software Installation5.2 OS/2 Client Driver Installation DEVICE=drive\path\MPAP100.SYS addr,irq,C ... addr,irq,C5.2.2 Auto Fallback configuration 5.2.3 Hot Swapping5.5 Installing OS/2 PCMCIA Support DEVICE=C\MPAP-100\MPAP100.SYS 300,5Page 6 Using the MPAP-100 with Syncdrive 7 Addressing 8 Interrupts Byte-oriented Synchronous Communications 9 SCC General InformationSDLC/HDLC Bit Synchronous Communications Asynchronous Communications9.1 Accessing the registers Example 3 Write data into the transmit buffer of channel A Interrupt control, Wait/DMA request control Master interrupt control and resetcoding, CRC reset Interrupt vector9.4 Support for SCC Channel B 9.2 Baud Rate Generator Programming9.3 SCC Data Encoding Methods ClockFrequency TimeConst 2 BaudRate ClockMode9.4.2 Extra clock support for channel A 9.4.1 Receive data and clock signals9.4.4 Other signals are not used 9.4.3 Extra handshaking for channel A9.5.2 Software Interrupt Acknowledge 9.5 SCC Incompatibility Warnings9.5.1 Register Pointer Bits 10.1 Enabling and disabling the FIFOs 10.2 Accessing the FIFOs10 FIFO Operation 10.2.1 Transmit FIFO10.3 SCC configuration for FIFO operation 10.2.2 Receive FIFORegister 10.3.2 Using channel B for receive 10.4 FIFO status and control 10.4.1 Interrupt status10.4.3 Reading current FIFO status 10.4.2 Resetting the FIFOs10.5 Accessing the SCC while FIFOs are enabled 10.4.4 Controlling the FIFOsPage 10.7 Receive FIFO timeout 11 Communications Register SWSYNCBits 1-0 Reserved, always RCKEN --- Receive Clock SourceBit 2 TCKEN --- Transmit Clock Source FIFOEN --- External data FIFO enable 12 Configuration RegisterINTS1, INTS0 --- Interrupt Source and Enable Bits External Data FIFOs Present --- Reserved, alwaysRXSRC --- Receive FIFO DMA Source 13 Interrupt Status Register 14 FIFO Status Register 15 FIFO Control Register 16 Receive Pattern Character Register Bits 7-0 Receive Pattern CharacterThis is17 Receive Pattern Count Register Bits 7-0 Receive Pattern CountBit 7 X16MODE --- Clock Mode 18 Receive FIFO Timeout RegisterBit 6 Reserved, always Bits 5-0 Timeout Interval 19 External Connections 19.1 SYNCA pin 19.2 RING pin19.3 Null-modem cables CIRCUIT BB - RECEIVED DATA 20 DTE Interface SignalsCIRCUIT AB - SIGNAL GROUND CIRCUIT CB - CLEAR TO SENDCIRCUIT CE - RING INDICATOR CONNECTOR NOTATION RING CIRCUIT CC - DCE READY DATA SET READY CONNECTOR NOTATION DSRCIRCUIT CD - DTE READY DATA TERMINAL READY CONNECTOR NOTATION DTR CIRCUIT CF - RECEIVED LINE SIGNAL DETECT CARRIER DETECTCIRCUIT TM - TEST MODE 21 Specifications 22.2 DOS Enabler 22 Software Troubleshooting22.1.3 Multiple Configuration Attempts 22.1 DOS Client Driver 22.1.1 Generic SuperClient Drivers22.2.3 Memory range exclusion 22.2.1 With Card and Socket Services22.2.2 Socket Numbers 22.3 OS/2 Client Driver 22.3.1 Resources Not AvailablePage MPAP-100 Users Manual Revision March P/N