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COMPACT BIDIRECTIONAL DUAL BUS AUTOSWITCHES
you want to set up. You can press the Printer button
several times to cycle through the three level of available
choices (PA, PB, or File Transfer). Finish the cycle to go
back to Auto-Link Mode.
2.2.3 F
ILE
T
RANSFER
M
ODE
Use the software selection utility to set up the
Autoswitch to File Transfer Mode. The SW179A dual bus
permits only that the computer attached to Port A can
do file transfer with the computer attached to Port B.
The same goes to Port C and Port D.
2.2.4 S
OFTWARE
S
ELECTION
See the README file on the driver disk for complete
instruction. This software driver will run an application
in the background and will not do any modification to
your system .INI settings.
2.3 Autoswitch Dual-Bus Design
The Autoswitch has two independent channels for the
switch which provide simultaneous access of either
device by any of the two attached computers. If two PCs
send their jobs simultaneously to two different ports, the
print job will be processed at the same time. But if the
