Normally any serial and parallel I/O ports can be supported by BIOS call services in DOS environment. However there are only support 4 serial ports (3F8h,2F8h,3E8h,,2E8h) and 3 parallel ports (3BCh/378h/278h) are supported by BIOS/DOS. If the user has more than one PCI-Card in the Slots, the dos driver pcidos.exe remap the first ports, that found on the PCI-Slots. If the user wish to remap ports of another PCI-Card, the Cards in the slots must changed. In case the PCI serial and parallel ports are different from the above configurations (e.g. I/O address or more than 4 serial ports / 3 parallel ports), they are not supported by BIOS/DOS directly. However some applications (e.g. "PComm Plus" could support 8 serial ports and each I/O address is settable) have their own driver, thus PCI cards could work correctly. NOTE : 1. All PCI parallel ports are possible to be remapped to legacy I/O address (378h,278h), thus the DOS driver will start remapping function automatically if any one of legacy ports is free. If the user wish to remap a other PCI card, the cards in the slots must changed, so the first PCI card, that found on the PCI Slots will remapped. 2. Since some PCI serial ports can support the remapping function (e.g. 4027D/4027A/4037D/4037A/4079D/4056D/4056WN/4066R/4006A/4008A/4014A/4018A). Thus please check 3. Since PCI serial card are drived by a higher CLK (14.7456 Mhz), thus the actual baudarate is 8 times higher than the BIOS/DOS baudrate setting. The below table shows the relation. *** Clock=14.7456 Mhz for all non-remapable port *** Item Actual Baudrate BIOS/DOS setting Remark ===== ================ ================= ================== 1 921600 115200 2 460800 57600 3 230400 28800 Non BIOS standard 4 115200 14400 Non BIOS standard 5 57600 7200 Non BIOS standard 6 38400 4800 7 19200 2400 8 9600 1200 9 4800 600 Non BIOS standard 10 2400 300 11 1200 150 12 300 37.5 Non BIOS standard *** Clock=1.8432 Mhz for remapable port in DOS *** Item Actual Baudrate BIOS/DOS setting Remark ===== ================ ================= ================== 1 921600 Do not support 2 460800 Do not support 3 230400 Do not support 4 115200 115200 5 57600 57600 6 38400 38400 7 19200 19200 8 9600 9600 9 4800 4800 10 2400 2400 11 1200 1200 12 300 300 Sunix IO Card Utility for DOS ver. 1.0 Usage: pcidos [-remap |-help|lpt] -remap Remap addresses to available standard parallel port addresses. -help Show help messages. -force force address to lpt(com) number. -lpt seting parallel mode to spp,ecp,epp,pff,bpp. e.g. -lpt2=ecp seting lpt2 to ecp mode. e.g. -force 278 lpt2 seting 278 to lpt2. e.g. -force 3f8 com4 seting 3f8 to com4. e.g. -remap 4037d 3f8 2f8 Seting 4037d adddress is port1 3f8 port2 2f8. If there is no paramter provided, it will show all of the addresses currently assigned to the parallel ports. Parallel remap to 378H and 278H. Serial remap to 3F8H,2F8H,3E8H,2E8H. LPT and COM port show with base address seting after Note : 1.Since some PCI serial ports can only support the remapping function (4027D/4037D/4056D/4079D), thus please check the PCI card by PciDos.exe. 2.All PCI parallel ports are possible to be remapped to legacy I/O address (378h,278h), thus the DOS driver will start remapping function automatically if any one of the legacy ports is free. 3.For the better compatibility, it is recommended that on-board LPT1 is set to 3BCh.Download Driver Pack
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