The Retro Web S1366 PCI Local Bus Enhanced IDE and Fast I/O Controller

USER MANUAL

MODEL: S1366

S1366 Enchanced PCIIDE & Fast 1/0 Controller is industry’s first single card solution supporting all 1/0 functions for your high performance PCI systems.

Sl366 Enchanced PCI with Fast 1/0 has following features:

Dual /DE channel for disk drives and ATAP I /DE CD-ROM/Tape Mode 4 IDE supporting up to 16. 7 MB/second data transfer rate

  • Two floppy ports for four floppy drives
  • Tli10 high speed NSJ6550 compatiable_serial ports
  • One versatile AT PRNIPS2/EPPIECP parallel port
  • One ga1ne port
  • IDE Toolkit utility software

S1366 PCI IDE & 1/0 controller; with the most innovated “T” \ paddle card, gives your customers the benifits of:

One more precious expansion slot

Lower cost than that of current two-card IDE and 110 solution (Jser-friendlier than the two-card IDE and 1/0 solution

IDE ToolKit Features

SpcedIDE: a custom performance tuning utility that allows you to squeeze the maximum I/O throughput out of your motherboard and drives. Transfer rate speed gains of over 100% may be attained with certain drives.
ViewIDE: a utility for displaying information about the devices attached to your S 1366. View IDE displays t?e characteristics of your IDE drives, and allo,vs you to examine their capabilities. The DOS driver must be loaded in order to run ViewIDE.

Check ID E: a utility for probing the configuration of your S 1366 and finding out the geon1ctries of your IDE drives.

Disk Prep: a disk preparation utility which performs the functions of FDISK and 1nore. DiskPrep aliows you to add/delete partitions, low level format your drives, set the active partition, etc. You may use FDISK if you prefer.,

Correct S1366 Main Board & Paddle Card (required) Installaton Layout Example

Main Board

A, B are large holes on paddle card. They are used for, (1) easy to unseat paddle card with hand and fingers; (2) holding paddle card with spacer bar against breaking loose from the slot

Packaging Checklist

  • S 13 66 main board
  • S 136x paddle card and 3″ cable
  • IDE cable (3 heads 19″ long)
  • FDD cable (5 heads 24″ long)
  • COM2/Game bracket/connectors/cable assembly
  • One software drivers diskette
  • User’s manual

S 13(,6 PCI Enhanced IDE & Fast 1/0 Main board

S 13(,6 PCI Enhanced IDE & Fast 1/0 Main board

 

*You must install the paddle card with S 1366 main board to enable all IDE and 1/0 functions.

S1366 PCI Enhanced IDE & Fast 1/0 Card Jumper Settings:

S 1366 is designed for “Plug aNd Play (PNP)”. PCI compliant 1nother board’s BIOS should perform all required S 1366 configurations automatically. In most cases, you do no_t need to change the jumpers. But for those special mother boards which can not successfully configure S 1366, following jump­ers are used to (1) set your preferred initialization conditions, (2) solve compatiability problems.

Jumpers Definition:

Enhanced Two IDE Channels & Hard Disk Drive Control

* Ideal for Mode 3 or Mode 4 speedy hard drives
* ATAPIIDECD-ROMorTapeReady

 

PCI Local Bus Enhanced IDE and Fast IO Controller

 

PCI Local Bus Enhanced IDE and Fast IO Controller

 

PCI Local Bus Enhanced IDE and Fast IO Controller

IDE Driver Utilities:

Following arc a list of current available drivers with S 1366 PCI IDE

– DOS/Windows 3.1/WFW 3. lx FastDisk drivers
– Netware 3.ix, 4.x drivers
– OS/2 2.x driver
– Window NT driver
– SCO Unix 3.2.4.x driver

Please, read the README files to get more detailed information before – install drivers.?

IDE Software Installation:

Insert driver diskette into drive A and type: A:INSTALL. The QuickIDE utility will guide you through ?he installation process step by step? it also modify your CONFIG.SYS in the root directory.

Drivers Installation:

Four FDD driver:
A driver S l366F4.COM is provided to enable SI366 accessing 4 FDD.
Please read README.FDC for installation instruction .

. DOS driver:
QuickIDE will automatically inst:’111 all required drivers to speed HD file transfer, to access 2nd channel IDE HD. To use 2nd IDE channel for ATAPI IDE CD-ROM or Tape drive, please use special drivers supplied by device’s vendors.

• Windows 3.1 FastDisk Driver:
QuickIDE will install the FastDisk driver into Windows’ system directory.
This driver runs in protected mode and implements I/0 queuing . It will speed up your Windows applications also requires more than 2MB of system 1nemory to implement.

NetWare 3.1 x, 4.x Driver:

During the installation ofNetWare, you will be prompted to insert the CMD drivers diskette into the drive and specify the search path. 10/9/94

Infonnation presented in this publication has been carefully checked for reliability; however, no responsibility is assumed for inaccuracies. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice.

Documents / Resources

The Retro Web S1366 PCI Local Bus Enhanced IDE and Fast I/O Controller [pdf] User Manual
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