USER’S MANUAL PCI Express Parallel Communication Board English Version Second Edition, December 2009 SUNIX Co., Ltd. Tel : +886-2-8913-1987 Fax: +886-2-8913-1986 Http://www.sunix.com.tw info@sunix.com.
___________________________________________________________________________________ PCI Express Parallel Communication Board User’s Manual Copyright Copyright© 2009 SUNIX Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, translated into any language, or transmitted in any from or by any means, photocopying, manual, or otherwise, without prior written permission from SUNIX.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction...............................................................................................4 Overview ........................................................................................................ 5 Package Checklist ......................................................................................... 5 Product Features ..............................................
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___________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Introduction ______________________________________________ SUNIX Golden I/O series, a line of PCI Express Parallel Communication Board, is designed to meet PCI Express Base Specification Ver1.1 (Compliable with PCI Express General 2 Specification). Its can be installed in virtually any available PC system and compatible with all major operating systems.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Overview Thanks for purchasing SUNIX PCI Express Parallel Communication Board; it is compatible with IEEE1284 standard parallel interfaces. User can expand parallel LPT ports on PC-based system by installing into PCI Express x1, x2, x4, x8 or x16 lane slots.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Product Features High performance SUNIX IEEE1284 parallel controller on-board. Ultra low power consumption design for Green Environment. Designed to meet PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.1 Supports x1, x2, x4, x8, x16 (lane) PCI Express Bus connector keys. Expand IEEE1284 parallel LPT port on system.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Product Specifications Parallel Communication Interface IEEE-1284 Mode SPP/ECP/EPP/BPP ( Auto-switching) Controller SUNIX SUN1989 BUS PCI Express Specification Ver1.1 Connector Key PCI Express one lane (x1) IRQ & IO Assigned by System Data Speed Maximum 1.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Hardware Installation ______________________________________________ This chapter includes information about hardware installation for PCI Express Parallel Communication Board.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Hardware Installation The hardware installation of PCI Express Parallel Board is easy to carry out. Before inserting the card into the PCI Express bus, please follow the detailed steps given below to install the PCI Express Parallel Board in your computer. Safety First To avoid damaging your system and boards, make sure your PC’s power is turned off before installing PCI Express card.
___________________________________________________________________________________ For 2-port PCI Parallel Card, there is one extend flat cable along with the board. Please connect the cable 2x13 female header to the board. The red wire matches with the arrow mark (first pin) on the board. Red Wire Fix the bracket on the PC chassis.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Pin Assignment This chapter provides the pin assignments for SUNIX PCI Express Parallel Communication Board, as well as the DB25 female pin assignments for the optional accessories.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Driver Installation ______________________________________________ After installing the PCI Express Parallel Communication Board in your system successfully, please follow the step by step software installation guide to confirm how to install appropriate driver and configure the LPT port settings.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Windows Driver Install Please refer to following instructions to install the driver for the first time under Windows operation system. You will need to plug the board in an available PCI or PCI-X slot first, before installing the driver. (1) After the board is physically installed and the PC boots up, system will detect the PCI Express Parallel Board and prompt for driver installation wizard, please choose cancel.
___________________________________________________________________________________ (3) Please select the product interface you bought, such as PCI Express. (4) Please select the O.S. version you are using, such as Windows Vista. Then system will process the driver installation step automatically.
___________________________________________________________________________________ (5) Click “Next” to continue driver installation steps. (6) Click “Finish” to end installation steps. If SUNIX I/O card install correct in your system, you can read “V” icon in this picture.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Windows Driver Uninstall Please refer to following instructions uninstall Multi-I/O card driver. (1) Click on the “Programs and Features” tab in the Windows Control Panel. Start > Controller Panel > Programs and Features (2) Entry Uninstall or change a program page, and double click “Windows Driver Package – SUNIX Co., Ltd SUNIX Multi-I/O Controller” to process driver uninstall procedure.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Windows Verify Installation You can use Windows “Device Manager” to verify proper installation. (1) Click on the “Programs and Features” tab in the Windows Control Panel. Start > Controller Panel > Device Manager (2) In the Device Manager window, you should see this board under Multifunction adapters (SUNIX 1-port Parallel Card in this example). You should also see SUNIX LPT port under Ports (COM & LPT).
___________________________________________________________________________________ Linux Driver Install This installation guide describes the procedures to install the PCI parallel board in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x. Please refer to “snx_Vx.x.x.x.tar.gz” for driver installation detail in CD Driver (Linux folder) directory. : \ PCI_IO \ Linux (1) Driver install Please create a directory under root directory, e.g /temp, do commands: # cd / # mkdir temp After get driver file "snx_Vx.x.x.x.tar.gz".
___________________________________________________________________________________ Check driver module, do command: # lsmod | grep snx Unload driver, do command: # rmmod snx (2) Device node creation Each parallel port has two device node which is name "lp?" and "parport?". This step will backup lp2~lp3 and parport2~parport3 to lp?.bak and parport?.bak in /dev for your system first. Then, create lp2~lp3 and parport2~parport3 in /dev for sunix driver, maximum up tp 2 parallel ports.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Port Configuration ______________________________________________ This chapter shows all Parallel LPT port settings that user came with usually, such as LPT port number, IO address and others.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Configure Parallel LPT Port Settings After the parallel board and LPT port drivers are installed, please refer to following instructions to configure LPT port settings. (1) Please launch the “Device Manager”. (2) Right click the “SUNIX LPT Port” or “SUNIX 1-port Parallel Card”. and select “Properties” to execute the detail settings.
___________________________________________________________________________________ LPT Port Number Settings System default setting is LPT3, if you want to change LPT number to another port, please follow up below steps. Please select “Port Settings” page. Under LPT Port Number, select a LPT number to assign to the port. Click “OK” to approve the settings for the selected port. Note: In order to prevent system resource conflict, do not select “in use” port.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Appendix ______________________________________________ This chapter shows some problems that user came with usually. Also you can check it if the PCI Express Parallel Board can not work properly in your system after following hardware and software installation steps. In addition, you could contact with us for detail technical product information. In this appendix, we cover the following topics.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Troubleshooting 1. System fails to find the PCI Express Parallel Board or LPT port. A: It may cause by following issue: a. The board is not properly plugged into the PCI Express slot. b. Please clean the golden finger. c. The PCI Express slot is defective. Please try other slots until you find one that works. d. The mainboard does not have an available IRQ for the this board.
___________________________________________________________________________________ 4. How can I set the LPT port to the legacy 278 or 378 ISA address? A: Because of PCI Express plug-n-play rule and windows operation system limitation, you can NOT remap to 278H or 378H legacy ISA IO address under Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Vista, 2008, 7 or Linux OS. 5. How come my parallel device can not work on this Card, but work properly under on-board LPT port?? A: a.
___________________________________________________________________________________ Product Family SUNIX provides kinds of Parallel IEEE1284 interface cards for customer selection, including PCI Express, PCI, CardBus, and ExpressCard. Please refer to the product family table for reference. Parallel IEEE1284 PCI Express Interface Port Connecter Bracket DB25 Female & 13 x 2 Pin Header Standard DB44 Female Low Profile Model NO.
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