Question

What is the easiest way of determining whether the communication is running on the CIF?

Answer

 The safest way is to start the System Configurator. After Debug mode has started (Online – Start Debugmode), all the Bus participants must be shown in green. But you can also check whether the RDY- and RUN-LED are on and the ERR-LED are off.However, this does not make certain that all the configured Bus participants are taking part in the data exchange. If, for instance, the monitoring of a Slave has been deactivated, then its failure will not be shown on the ERR-LED.

Question

We are installing your PC card into our machine controls. Is a license required for your System Configurator for each control supplied?

Answer

  If your customer does not need to change the configuration, then you can provide the System Configurator as a demo version without cost. Thus, he has all the diagnostic functions available.Furthermore, he can load a new configuration supplied by you but he cannot alter it without also requiring his own license.

Question

What standard settings must be taken into account for a PC when an ISA card is being used?

Answer

 Check the BIOS settings of the PC. Make sure that no SHADOW RAM is activated for the memory region to be used. If an Interrupt is to be used for the board, set the Interrupt in the BIOS to LEGACY ISA so that it is not used for PnP boards.Begin in the so-called POLLING MODE if you are not certain which Interrupt is free on the system

Question

How do I know whether the memory address of the CIF is already occupied? How do I know whether the memory address of the CIF is already occupied?

Answer

 Remove the board from the PC and boot the PC in normal DOS mode (do not use a Memory Manager). Start the DEBUGEXE MS-DOS program. Use the command D (for Display) and check the memory region. The region must show 0xFF as data.Repeat this step for every 4 KByte region that the card occupies. Values not equal to 0xFF show that this region is already occupied.Look for a different memory area and change the address setting accordingly on the CIF.

Question

How do I set the PC to recognise the base address of my ISA Card

Answer

 Run the device driver set up program from the start button, programs. In here you will also find the 2 K or 8 K switch.

Question

How to install a PCI CIF card?

Answer

 1 Insert the CIF hardware.set to use by PCI 2 The resource information comes from the CIF board. The PC BIOS is responsible to assign the resources to the PCI device. It is also responsible to prevent overlapping resources by the different devices.3 If you want to use interrupts, make sure that enough interrupts in the BIOS are set to use by PCI (check your BIOS documentation). (check your BIOS documentation).Now the effect is, that the diskette cannot be read in other floppys drives. Solution: Please send the MSM-DK back to DLAG, we will modify the MSM-DK and replace the floppy drive.