Ampro Corporation 486E manual

Product Reference

This section describes the SETUP parameters found on the Extended Serial Console Configuration screen.

!Console Output Device—Select the console output device, either Video, Serial 1, Serial 2, or None.

!Console Input Device—Select the console input device, either the PC Keyboard, Serial 1, Serial 2, or None.

!Serial Console Output Setup—Enter the communication parameters for your console output serial port. Set the data length, stop bits, parity, and baud rate to match the serial output device.

!Console Output Handshake—Enable or disable hardware handshaking. If enabled, the DSR and CTS signals control the data flow. Be sure to connect the DSR and CTS signals on the serial port’s connector to the appropriate handshake signals on the external serial device’s interface connector.

!Serial Console Input Setup—Enter the communication parameters for the console input serial port. Set the data length, stop bits, parity, and baud rate to match the serial input device.

!Delete from COM Port Table—When DOS boots, it initializes the system serial ports. Different versions of DOS may set the ports to different default settings. Enabling this option causes the BIOS not to include console serial device(s) in the COM port table. This prevents DOS from changing the assigned port values entered in the SETUP screen.

Caution

Be careful when changing the console configuration. If None is specified for console input and output, there is no console access to the system. This state can be recovered by removing the serial console plug from the primary serial port connector and shorting pins J11-7/8.

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