KOUWELL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
KW-556F
Data bus: | 16-bit, ISA |
Size: | Half-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 |
40-pin IDE(AT) Interface connector | CN1 |
34-pin control cable connector - floppy drive | CN2 |
16-pin game port - internal | CN3 |
10-pin serial port (COM2/3/4) - internal | CN4 |
9-pin serial port (COM1/3/4) - external | CN5 |
25-pin parallel port (LPT1/2/3) - external | CN6 |
2-pin connector - Drive active LED | JP2 |
USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS | |||
Function | Location | Setting | |
| » | Hard drive enabled | JP7/D | pins 2 & 3 closed |
Hard drive disabled | JP7/D | pins 1 & 2 closed | |
| » | Floppy drive enabled | JP7/E | pins 2 & 3 closed |
Floppy drive disabled | JP7/E | pins 1 & 2 closed | |
USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS (CONTINUED) | |||
Function | Location | Setting | |
| » | Parallel Port is uni-directional | JP4 | closed |
Parallel Port is bi-directional | JP4 | open | |
| » | Hard drive port address is 1F0-1F7,3F6 & 3F7h | JP7/A | pins 1 & 2 closed |
Hard drive port address is 170-177, 376 & 377h | JP7/A | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | Floppy drive booting sequence is A:/B: | JP7/B | pins 2 & 3 closed |
Floppy drive booting sequence is B:/A: | JP7/B | pins 1 & 2 closed | |
| » | Floppy drive port address is 3F0-3F7h | JP7/C | pins 1 & 2 closed |
Floppy drive port address is 370-377h | JP7/C | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
SERIAL PORT 1 CONFIGURATION | |||
Setting | JP6/A | JP6/B | |
| » | COM1 | pins 2 & 3 closed | pins 1 & 2 closed |
COM3 | pins 1 & 2 closed | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
COM4 | pins 2 & 3 closed | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
Disabled | pins 1 & 2 closed | pins 1 & 2 closed | |
SERIAL PORT 1 INTERRUPT SELECT | ||||
Setting | JP8/A | JP8/B | JP8/C | |
| » | IRQ4 | closed | open | open |
IRQ3 | open | closed | open | |
IRQ5 | open | open | closed | |
SERIAL PORT 2 CONFIGURATION | |||
Setting | JP6/C | JP6/D | |
| » | COM2 | pins 2 & 3 closed | pins 1 & 2 closed |
COM3 | pins 2 & 3 closed | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
COM4 | pins 1 & 2 closed | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
Disabled | pins 1 & 2 closed | pins 1 & 2 closed | |
SERIAL PORT 2 INTERRUPT SELECT | ||||
Setting | JP8/D | JP8/E | JP8/F | |
| » | IRQ3 | closed | open | open |
IRQ4 | open | closed | open | |
IRQ5 | open | open | closed | |
PARALLEL PORT CONFIGURATION | |||
LPT | JP6/E | JP6/F | |
| » | LPT1(378h) | pins 1 & 2 closed | pins 2 & 3 closed |
LPT2(278h) | pins 2 & 3 closed | pins 1 & 2 closed | |
Disabled | pins 1 & 2 closed | pins 1 & 2 closed | |
PARALLEL PORT INTERRUPT SELECT | |||
IRQ | JP8/G | JP8/H | |
| » | IRQ7 | closed | open |
IRQ5 | open | closed | |