Allen-Bradley 1747-OC Series, User Manual

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1747-UM001A-US-P - March 2000
Starting the Open Controller 4-7
7. Cycle power to the open controller. Or, simply exit CMOS to reboot the
open controller.
During system boot, the open controller monitor displays this message
underneath the BIOS system configuration screen:
COM2: Emulating Drive A:
8. Drive A: on the remote PC appears as drive A: to the open controller.
You can use drive A: on the remote PC to make the native IDE drive
bootable or to install an operating system or other software on the native
IDE drive. Refer to "Installing software from a remote PC through
COM2" on page 6-3.
If there is no bootable floppy disk in drive A: of the remote PC, the open
controller will boot from the C: drive of the open controller, as long as
the C: drive is bootable. If the open controller boots from the C: drive,
you can still access the A: drive of the remote PC, as long as
hostsvr
is
running on the remote PC.
Booting from a PC Card in a PCMCIA interface module
This method lets you transfer software from a bootable ATA memory
device to a native IDE drive. The ATA memory device will be drive C: and
the native IDE drive will be drive D:.
Requirements
You need a:
•
1747-OCPCM1 module
•
1747-OCVGA1 or 1747-OCVGAE module, monitor, and keyboard
or
remote PC, serial cable, and terminal emulation software
•
bootable, ATA-compatible PC Card
You can make a PC Card DOS bootable by using your personal
computer and running the
sys
command on the PC card. For example, if
the PC card is drive D:, enter
sys d:
!
ATTENTION: Don’t use the keyboard on the remote PC or
hostsvr
will exit.
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