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Parallel Port
The G486VPC system board has a standard connector for interfacing
your PC to a parallel printer. The parallel port on your system board can
be set to any of the following system I/O addresses:
I/O Address: 3BC-3BE Hex
378-37A Hex (default)
278-27A Hex
Connecting the Parallel Printer Port
Attach the DB-25S printer port cable, which came with the system
board, to connector J10 on the G486VPC system board. Make sure the
colored stripe on the ribbon cable aligns with pin 1 of connector J10.
Use a small nutdriver to mount the cable into a DB-25 cutout in the
system chassis.
Floppy Disk Drive Controller
The G486VPC system board has a built-in floppy disk controller that
supports two standard floppy disk drives. You can install any 360KB,
720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, or 2.88MB floppy disk drives.
Connecting the Floppy Disk Cable
1. Install the 34-pin header connector into the floppy disk connector
(J11) on the system board. The colored edge of the ribbon should
be aligned with pin 1 of connector J11.
2. Install the other 34-pin header connector(s) into the disk drive(s).
Align the colored edge of the daisy chained ribbon cable with pin 1
of the drive edge connector(s). The end-most connector should be
attached to the drive you want to designate as Drive A.
IDE Hard Disk Interface
The G486VPC system board is equipped with two VLB IDE shrouded
headers that will interface four Enhanced IDE (Integrated Drive Elec-
tronics) hard disk drives.
