PROMISE TECHNOLOGY, INC.

DRIVECACHE DC2032

Data bus: 16-bit, ISA

Size: Full-length, full-height card

Hard drives supported: Four IDE(AT) drives

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

One floppy tape drive

Maximum heads/cyl.: 16 heads and 2048 cylinders

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                                CONNECTIONS

                     Function                             Location

  9-pin serial port (COM1/3)-external                        CN1

  25-pin parallel port (LPT1/2)-external                     CN2

  40-pin IDE(AT) control cable connector-hard                J1
  drive 0 and 1

  40-pin IDE(AT) control cable connector-hard                J2
  drive 2 and 3

  34-pin control cable connector-floppy drive                J3

  34-pin control cable connector-floppy tape                 J4
  drive

  4-pin connector-drive active LED                           JP1

  9-pin serial port (COM2/4)-internal                       JP11

                        USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS

              Function                    Location            Setting

  »   Floppy drive enabled                   JP9             pins 1 & 2
                                                              closed

      Floppy drive disabled                  JP9             pins 2 & 3
                                                              closed

  »   Parallel port (CN12) set to           JP10             pins 2 & 3
      LPT1                                                    closed

      Parallel port (CN12) set to           JP10             pins 1 & 2
      LPT2                                                    closed

      Parallel port disabled                JP10               open

                             INTERRUPT REQUEST

    IRQ      JP2/jumper   JP2/jumper   JP3/jumper   JP3/jumper   JP3/jumper
                 2            3            1            2            3

      IRQ12    closed        open        closed        open        open

  »   IRQ14     open         open         open        closed       open

      IRQ15     open        closed        open         open       closed

  Note:JP2/1, JP2/4 and JP3/4 are Not used and should not be altered.

                         SERIAL PORT CONFIGURATION

  CN10 (external)   CN11 (internal)     JP5/jumper 1       JP5/jumper 2

       COM1               COM2              open               open

       COM3               COM2             closed              open

       COM1               COM4              open              closed

       COM3               COM4             closed             closed

                               BIOS ADDRESS

   Address      JP7/jumper 1   JP7/jumper 2   JP7/jumper 3   JP7/jumper 4

      C800h       closed          open          closed          closed

      CA00h       closed          open          closed           open

      CC00h       closed          open           open           closed

      CE00h       closed          open           open            open

      D000h        open          closed         closed          closed

      D200h        open          closed         closed           open

      D400h        open          closed          open           closed

      D600h        open          closed          open            open

  »   D800h        open           open          closed          closed

      DA00h        open           open          closed           open

      DC00h        open           open           open           closed

      DE00h        open           open           open            open

         ON-BOARD CACHE CONFIGURATION

      Size          Bank 0          Bank 1

      512k        (2) 256K x 9       NONE

       1M         (2) 256K x 9   (2) 256K x 9

       2M         (2) 1M x 9         NONE

      2.5M        (2) 256K x 9    (2) 1M x 9

       4M         (2) 1M x 9      (2) 1M x 9

       8M         (2) 4M x 9         NONE

      8.5M        (2) 256K x 9    (2) 4M x 9

      10M         (2) 256K x 9    (2) 4M x 9

      16M         (2) 4M x 9      (2) 4M x 9