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KOUWELL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION

KW-556A V.1.1

Data bus:

16-bit, ISA

Size:

Full-length, full-height card

Hard drive supported:

Two IDE (AT) Interface drives

Floppy drives supported:

Two 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, or 1.44MB drives

CONNECTIONS

Function

Location

4-pin connector - drive active LED

J1

40-pin IDE (AT) Interface connector

J2

34-pin control cable connector - floppy drive

J3

16-pin game port - internal

J4

10-pin serial port (COM1/3) - internal

J5

9-pin serial port - external

J6

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

J7

SERIAL PORT 1 ADDRESS

Setting

JP2

JP3

JP4

JP5

COM1(3F8-3FFh)

closed

open

open

open

COM2(2F8-2FFh)

open

closed

open

open

COM3(3E8-3EFh)

open

open

closed

open

COM4(2E8-2EFh)

open

open

open

closed

SERIAL PORT 1 ADDRESS

Setting

JP6

JP7

JP8

JP9

COM1(3F8-3FFh)

closed

open

open

open

COM2(2F8-2FFh)

open

closed

open

open

COM3(3E8-3EFh)

open

open

closed

open

COM4(2E8-2EFh)

open

open

open

closed

SERIAL PORT 1 INTERRUPT SELECT

IRQ

JP16

JP17

JP18

JP19

IRQ3

closed

open

open

open

IRQ4

open

closed

open

open

IRQ5

open

open

closed

open

IRQ9

open

open

open

closed

SERIAL PORT 2 INTERRUPT SELECT

IRQ

JP20

JP21

JP22

JP23

IRQ3

closed

open

open

open

IRQ4

open

closed

open

open

IRQ5

open

open

closed

open

IRQ9

open

open

open

closed

PARALLEL PORT ADDRESS SELECT

I/O Address

JP24

JP25

378h

closed

open

278h

open

closed

Disabled

open

open

Note: The parallel port Interrupt is fixed at IRQ7.

IDE DRIVE ACTIVE LED NOTE

Note: You may use the pins 1 & 2 or 3 & 4 for the HDD active LED connection.

FLOPPY DRIVE SELECT

Setting

JP12

JP15

»

Enabled

closed

open

 

Disabled

open

closed