
PROMISE TECHNOLOGY, INC.

DC2000 (VER. 2)

  Data bus:                32-bit, VL-bus

  Size:                    Three/quarter-length, half-height card

  Hard drive supported:    Two IDE (AT) Interface drives

  Floppy drives            Two 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, or 1.44MB drives
  supported:

[Image]

                              CONNECTIONS

                    Function                           Location

  25-pin parallel port (LPT1/2/3) - external              CN1

  34-pin control cable connector - floppy drive           J1

  40-pin IDE (AT) Interface connector                     J2

  10-pin serial port 1 (COM1/3) - external                JP3

  10-pin serial port 2 (COM2/4) - internal                JP4

  4-pin connector - drive active LED                      JP7

                             HARD DRIVE SPEED

        Speed                JP6/jumper 1              JP6/jumper 2

            0            pins 1 & 2 closed          pins 1 & 2 closed

             1            pins 2 & 3 closed          pins 1 & 2 closed

             2            pins 2 & 3 closed          pins 2 & 3 closed

                        USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS

               Function                     Location           Setting

     Parallel port (CN1) is                   JP1             closed
      uni-directional

      Parallel port (CN1) is                   JP1              open
      bi-directional

     Floppy drive enabled                JP2/jumper 7        pins 1 & 2
                                                               closed

      Floppy drive disabled               JP2/jumper 7        pins 2 & 3
                                                               closed

                     SERIAL PORT 1 (JP3) CONFIGURATION

            COM                 JP2/jumper 1            JP2/jumper 2

         COM1 (3F8h)         pins 1 & 2 closed       pins 2 & 3 closed

          COM3 (3E8h)         pins 2 & 3 closed       pins 1 & 2 closed

           Disabled           pins 2 & 3 closed       pins 2 & 3 closed

                     SERIAL PORT 2 (JP4) CONFIGURATION

            COM                 JP2/jumper 3            JP2/jumper 4

         COM2 (2F8h)         pins 1 & 2 closed       pins 2 & 3 closed

          COM4 (2E8h)         pins 2 & 3 closed       pins 1 & 2 closed

           Disabled           pins 2 & 3 closed       pins 2 & 3 closed

                    PARALLEL PORT (CN1) CONFIGURATION

    Address & IRQ      JP2/jumper 5      JP2/jumper 6      JP2/jumper 8

      LPT3 (3BCh)       pins 1 & 2        pins 1 & 2        pins 2 & 3
                          closed            closed            closed

       LPT1 (378h)       pins 2 & 3        pins 1 & 2        pins 2 & 3
                          closed            closed            closed

       LPT2 (278h)       pins 1 & 2        pins 2 & 3        pins 1 & 2
                          closed            closed            closed

         Disabled        pins 2 & 3        pins 2 & 3      all pins open
                          closed            closed

                   LPT1 & LPT3 uses IRQ7 and LPT2 uses IRQ5

                               BIOS ADDRESS

     Address         JP5/1      JP5/2      JP5/3       JP5/4      JP5/5

       D8000h       open       open       closed     closed      closed

        DE000h       open       open        open       open       closed

        DC000h       open       open        open      closed      closed

        DA000h       open       open       closed      open       closed

        D6000h       open      closed       open       open       closed

        D4000h       open      closed       open      closed      closed

        D2000h       open      closed      closed      open       closed

        D0000h       open      closed      closed     closed      closed

        CE000h      closed      open        open       open       closed

        CC000h      closed      open        open      closed      closed

        CA000h      closed      open       closed      open       closed

        C8000h      closed      open       closed     closed      closed

       Disabled       n/a        n/a        n/a         n/a        open

