APPENDIX B
PC COM DEVICE
DRIVER FOR MS/DOS
B.1 PCCOM
Software
The PCCOM V4.0 is a high
performance MS/DOS device driver for PC/XT, PC/AT, PC/386, PC/486,
Pentium or compatibles. Under MS/DOS environment, you can set up your
serial ports by PCCOM device driver. The setup procedure provides
flexible functions to specify the configuration of multi-serial card,
that is, for PCCOM ISA cards, the hardware configurations likes I/O
port number, I/O port address, interrupt and interrupt vector are user
selectable.
After the device driver is installed, It takes over communication
between CPU and multi-serial cards such as four port card, eight port
card, ...etc. For each I/O port, the service routine handles a ring
buffer to keep tack of all I/O data. Moreover, the PCCOM software
provides library routines (C, PASCAL, BASIC, FoxPro) and DOS
communication interface (DOS device driver, BIOS call) for several
access levels.
The PCCOM V4.0 is an upgrade version of PCCOM V3.0 software. It can
handle both PCCOM ISA and PCCOM PCI series cards. Each serial port may
contain either 8250, 16450, 16550, or 16650 chip that can be
automatically detected by the available baud rates are 600, 1200, 9600,
38400, 56000, 115200,230400 and 460800 bps.
ĦEFor more details, please refer PCCOMV2 manual
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B.2
Software Installation
When the board is installed,
please install software drivers as follows :
STEP 1: Prepare PCI.OPT file
The
PCI.OPT file
contents are :
/B:4
/D:COM3
/P:[:2:(2k:9600:N-8-1:RTS+DTR:XON)
* 2]
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STEP
2: Prepare CONFIG.SYS file
Insert statement into
CONFIG.SYS
file
For
normal speed
DEVICE = PCCOM.SYS @c:\pci.opt
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For high speed
DEVICE = PCCOMH.SYS @c:\pci.opt
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The syntax of PnP function is
The
Card_id field is defined as 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or nil, if you use PnP
mode, just fill nil in card_id field that like step 1, otherwise you
can specify card_id to match the card identifier switch. The Portno
field is used to specify number of ports in this adapter.
The Port field is defined as PCCOM V2.0.
If more than one PCCOM board is
installed,
Please repeat directive /P of the step 1.
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