Publication 1747-UM001A-US-P - March 2000
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Chapter 4
Starting the Open Controller
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Powering Up an Open Controller CPU Module. . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Booting when an operating system is loaded . . . . . . . . 4-3
Booting when an operating system is not loaded . . . . . 4-3
Booting from a remote PC through COM2. . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Booting from a PC Card in a PCMCIA interface module. 4-7
Booting from an external, parallel-port floppy. . . . . . . . 4-10
Chapter 5
Defining System Settings
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Defining System Interrupts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
How ISA/EISA interrupts and PCI/PnP interrupts interact 5-2
Defining the primary IRQ (IRQ 14). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Defining the secondary IRQ (IRQ 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Defining the interrupts for PC Cards in PCMCIA
interface modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Defining interrupts for a 1747-OCKTX,
-OCKTXD module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Defining interrupts for the open controller SCANNER . . 5-7
Defining Drive Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Using primary drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Using secondary drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Using 3.5” IDE devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Using Memory Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Operating System Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Chapter 6
Installing Software
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Installing Software onto a Native IDE Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Installing software from a remote PC through COM2 . . . 6-3
Installing software through DOS interlnk . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
Installing software from an external, parallel-port floppy 6-6
Installing software from an external, parallel-port
SCSI device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Installing software from a PCMCIA CD-ROM or
ATA memory device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Installing software from an external, IDE-compatible device 6-9
Temporarily installing the native IDE drive in another PC 6-11
Installing Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
Installing Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Adding hardware to load Windows NT on the
open controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Adjusting the standard installation procedure to load
Windows NT on the open controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17