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ANTAIRA MSC-208A Installation Manual

Summary of MSC-208A

  • Page 1

    Congratulation on your purchasing this high performance pci express multi-serial host adapter. The adapter is high speed pci express bus based and plug-and-play compliant. Its serial ports are fully 16c950 uart compatible with most of the rs232c devices available from the market. Features: full x1 p...

  • Page 2: Warning!!!

    8s rs232 multi serial pci express card 2 jp1- com ports swapping selector: these jumpers were used to swap serial ports s1-s4 and s5-s8. Please keep them at the default factory settings since it may confuse you about the com port numbers. Jp1 settings no swapping. The com ports will be mapped to s1 ...

  • Page 3

    8s rs232 multi serial pci express card 3 at this setting, please do not connect the normal octopus cable supplied with this product because the pin#58 was connected to gnd in this cable. It will short the power source to gnd and may damage your motherboard or power supply. This setting is designed f...

  • Page 4: 5. Software Installation

    8s rs232 multi serial pci express card 4 1. Turn the system power off before installation! 2. Use static electricity discharge precautions. 3. Remove the chassis cover from your computer 4. Locate an unused pci express slot (typically white and smaller) and remove the corresponding slot cover from c...

  • Page 5: Note:

    8s rs232 multi serial pci express card 5 note: to check if your card supports high baud rate of 921.6kbps, please take a look at the crystal y1 on the card’s pc board, the basic model equipped with 1.8432mhz and the enhanced model equipped with a 14.7456mhz oscillators. The basic model is the curren...

  • Page 6: 7. Pin Assignments

    8s rs232 multi serial pci express card 6 dsub62-female connector pin assignments pin signal pin signal pin signal 1 txd1 22 rxd1 43 cts1 2 dtr1 23 dsr1 44 rts1 3 rxd2 24 dcd1 45 gnd 4 dsr2 25 txd2 46 cts2 5 dcd2 26 dtr2 47 rts2 6 txd3 27 rxd3 48 cts3 7 dtr3 28 dsr3 49 rts3 8 rxd4 29 dcd3 50 gnd 9 ds...

  • Page 7: 8. Specifications

    8s rs232 multi serial pci express card 7 18 dcd7 39 dtr7 60 rts7 19 rxd8 40 gnd 61 cts8 20 dsr8 41 txd8 62 rts8 21 dcd8 42 dtr8 *note: pin#58 will be set to pwr or gnd according to the jp3 jumper settings. Type specifications connectors cable bus interface number of ports rs-232 signals baud rate da...