Ampro Corporation 486E manual

I/O Addresses	2–11
Interrupt Assignments	2–12
ROM-BIOS Installation of the Serial Ports	2–13
Serial Port Connectors (J11, J13)	2–13
Configuring Serial 2 for RS-485 (J6, W5, W6)	2–15
RS-485 Twisted-Pair Cabling Using RJ11 Connectors	2–16
Using the RS-485 Interface	2–17
Serial Console	2–18
Serial Booting and Serial Programming	2–20
Using a Serial Modem	2–20
Bi-Directional Parallel Port	2–21
I/O Addresses	2–21
ROM-BIOS Installation of Parallel Ports	2–22
Standard and General Purpose I/O Operation	2–22
Parallel Port Interrupt	2–23
Parallel Port Connector (J15)	2–25
Floppy Disk Interface	2–27
Floppy Drive Considerations	2–27
Floppy Interface Configuration	2–28
Floppy Interface Connector (J14)	2–28
IDE Hard Disk Interface	2–29
IDE Connector (J12)	2–29
IDE Interface Configuration	2–31
Compact Flash Solid-State Disk	2–32
Flat Panel/CRT Video Controller	2–33
Connecting a CRT (J5)	2–33
Connecting a Flat Panel (J3)	2–35
Selecting Vee Polarity	2–39
Attaching an External Contrast Control	2–40
Ethernet Network Interface	2–42
Network Terms	2–42
Installing an Ethernet Boot PROM	2–43
Twisted Pair Interface (J7)	2–44
Twisted-Pair Installations	2–44
Using Network Operating Systems (NOS)	2–45
Network OS Drivers	2–46
Controlling the Ethernet LAN Interface Directly	2–46
Manufacturer’s Ethernet ID	2–47
Byte-Wide Socket (S0)	2–48
Addressing the Byte-wide Socket	2–49
Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives	2–50
Accessing the Byte-Wide Socket	2–50
Jumpering the Byte-Wide Socket	2–52
Byte-Wide Socket Signals	2–52
Using EPROMs	2–53
FLASH EPROM Programming	2–53
Using SRAMs	2–54
Non-volatile RAM	2–54

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