Black Box PC470C, PC472C What’s Included, Station Addresses, What is a Plug-and-Play PnP System?

5250 ADAPTER CARDS: HARDWARE INSTALLATION MANUAL

2.3 What’s Included

•5250 Adapter Card.

•Auto-terminating twinaxial cable assembly (this connects the twinax cables to the Adapter Card).

•Windows® Utility diskette.

•This user’s manual.

NOTE

The external connector on the Adapter Card provides a connection to the autoterminating twinax cable assembly. Make sure you use only the cable assembly provided with the Adapter Card.

If this is the last connection in the twinax cable daisychain, leave one twinax connector open for proper autotermination.

2.4 Station Addresses

The adapter makes it possible for your PC to maintain up to two station addresses, or up to seven on a PCI Express Card. The host system must be properly configured for each address you plan to use.

2.5 What is a Plug-and-Play (PnP) System?

A PC is considered a Plug-and-Play system if it contains one or a combination of the following software components:

•PnP system BIOS.

•PnP operating system (such as Windows 95 or 98).

•PnP Configuration Utility.

If a system does not contain any of these software components, it is not considered a PnP system. It is possible to upgrade a non-PnP system to a PnP system by simply adding one of these components, such as Windows 95.

A PnP system BIOS will configure a PnP adapter with the boot ROMs within the system. A PnP operating system will configure all PnP adapters on the system which were not configured by the system BIOS, or all of the cards if no PnP BIOS is present. A PnP Configuration Utility or Resource Manager will configure PnP adapters like a PnP operating system.

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