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DDDDD.2 Installation of the Quatech SSP .2 Installation of the Quatech SSP
.2 Installation of the Quatech SSP .2 Installation of the Quatech SSP .2 Installation of the Quatech SSP-100 Card in Allegro (or P
-100 Card in Allegro (or P
-100 Card in Allegro (or P -100 Card in Allegro (or P -100 Card in Allegro (or Pro4000)
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Installation of the Quatech QSP-100 PCMCIA 1 channel card is described in detail in Quatech
User’s Manual “SSP-100 RS-232 Serial Port Type II PCMCIA Card”. The card can be installed in
DOS environment using two configuration software programs; a Client Driver, SSP100CL.COM,
and a card Enabler, SSP100EN.EXE. The differences between these two programs are discussed
in section 2 of the Quatech User’s Manual, however the Client Driver is the preferred method of
installation and configuration.
The Allegro (and Pro4000) system is configured with necessary Card and Socket Services software.
Default configuration of AUTOEXEC.BAT is given in Pro4000 User’s Manual (page 6-6).
Installation of the SSP-100 Client Driver requires modification of a startup file AUTOEXEC.BAT.
The AUTOEXEC.BAT startup file containing default configuration settings is stored in the ROM
(drive A:) and the C: drive. The file on the C: drive is used by the Pro4000 during boot up. Therefore
AUTOEXEC.BAT on drive C: has to be modified using a text editor or more conveniently, option
F2 in the program ProShell (ProShell is activated by typing ps at the DOS command prompt).
The following procedure can be used to install the SSP-100 Client Driver in Allegro (Pro4000):
Copy the file SSP100CL.COM from the SSP-100 diskette onto the Allegro system drive C:
(i.e. to directory C:\UTIL) using the Juniper Systems communication software Lynx (see
Appendix C).
Using text editor (option F2 in File Scout or ProShell), open the AUTOEXEC.BAT located
in the root directory of drive C:.
Add the following line to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
C:\UTIL\SSP100CL.COM
(assuming that the file SSP100CL.COM is located in directory C:\UTIL.). Several command
line options can be specified on this line. These options are discussed in section 2.1.1 and
2.2 of the Quatech User’s Manual, however installation of the Client Driver on several
Pro4000 computers revealed that these options can be omitted and the card serial port will
be assigned to the next available port, i.e. COM3, assuming that COM1 and COM2 are
already occupied. If a second SSP-100 is installed, then it will be configured at COM4.
Reboot the system (power ON or press keys Ctrl+Alt+Del) and note that the confirmation
message is displayed when the SSP-100 Client Driver is loaded. The SSP-100 Client Driver
supports “Hot Swapping” which means that it is not necessary to have the card installed
when booting the system.
Standard COM port resources are:
COM1: I/O Base Address = 3F8, IRQ Level = 4
COM2: I/O Base Address = 2F8, IRQ Level = 3
COM3: I/O Base Address = 3E8, IRQ Level = 4
COM4: I/O Base Address = 2E8, IRQ Level = 3
The I/O Base Address and Interrupt will be necessary to assign SSP-100 serial ports in EM61MK2A
software (Advanced COM Setup).