NCL AMERICA
NCL 538B
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Data bus: 16-bit, ISA
Size: Half-length, full-height card
Hard drives supported: Two AT Interface (IDE) drives
Floppy drives supported: Two 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, or 1.44MB
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 CONNECTIONS  | |
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 Function  | 
 Location  | 
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 34-pin control cable connector-floppy drive  | 
 CN3  | 
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 40-pin AT Interface (IDE) connector  | 
 CN4  | 
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 4-pin connector-drive active LED  | 
 CN10  | 
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 USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS  | |||
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 Function  | 
 Location  | 
 Setting  | |
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 DACK2 (Floppy drive DMA Acknowledge) (hard-wired)  | 
 JP1  | 
 pins 1 & 2 closed  | 
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 DACK3 (Floppy drive DMA Acknowledge)  | 
 JP1  | 
 pins 2 & 3 closed  | |
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 IRQ6 (Floppy drive Interrupt Request) (hard-wired)  | 
 JP2  | 
 pins 1 & 2 closed  | 
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 IRQ10 (Floppy drive Interrupt Request)  | 
 JP2  | 
 pins 2 & 3 closed  | |
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 IRQ14 (Hard drive Interrupt Request)  | 
 JP3  | 
 pins 1 & 2 closed  | 
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 IRQ15 (Hard drive Interrupt Request)  | 
 JP3  | 
 pins 2 & 3 closed  | |
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 DRQ2 (Floppy drive DMA Request) (hard-wired)  | 
 JP4  | 
 pins 1 & 2 closed  | 
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 DRQ3 (Floppy drive DMA Request)  | 
 JP4  | 
 pins 2 & 3 closed  | |
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 Hard drive port address is 1FO-1F7h  | 
 JP6  | 
 open  | 
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 Hard drive port address is 17O-177h  | 
 JP6  | 
 closed  | |
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 Floppy drive port address is 3F2-3F7h  | 
 JP7  | 
 open  | 
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 Floppy drive port address is 372-377h  | 
 JP7  | 
 closed  | |
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 Normal operation  | 
 JP8  | 
 open  | 
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 Diagnostic mode  | 
 JP8  | 
 closed  | |
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 Zero wait state disabled  | 
 JP9  | 
 open  | 
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 Zero wait state enabled  | 
 JP9  | 
 closed  | |
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 BIOS enabled  | 
 JP11  | 
 closed  | 
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 BIOS disabled  | 
 JP11  | 
 open  | |
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 BIOS ADDRESS  | |||
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 Address  | 
 Jumper JP5  | 
 Jumper JP5A  | |
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 C800h  | 
 open  | 
 open  | 
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 CC00h  | 
 closed  | 
 open  | |
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 D800h  | 
 open  | 
 closed  | |
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 DC00h  | 
 closed  | 
 closed  | |
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 MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL NOTES  | 
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 Debug: G=C800:5 sets up custom parameters for IDE drives  |