ICS Advent WDT-1002, Product Manual

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Chapter 2: Installation
Manual Number: 00650-009-28 Page 2-1
Chapter 2: Installation
Software Installation
Installation Program
The software should be installed first before the card is physically installed in the chassis. A setup
routine titled WDTSET.EXE, describes how to set all the address switches and jumpers on the card.
Each of the settings is also described in its appropriate section of this manual.
This package uses compression schemes to simplify installation and to permit use of a single dis-
kette. A program is provided on your master disk to copy and expand the software package onto
your hard-drive. To begin the installation, place the software master diskette in a floppy drive and
execute the INSTALL.EXE program. For example, if you have placed the master disk in floppy
drive A, you would type "
A:INSTALL [ENTER]
" to execute the installation program.
The installation program will ask you for various installation options, and will provide default set-
tings. These default settings may be selected (by pressing ENTER) if they will work with your
particular application and system setup, or you can respond to the questions with appropriate an-
swers as needed.
When all of the installation options have been set, the program will expand the program files into the
destination you have selected. Once this process is complete, please put your Master Diskette in a
safe place as backup.
Several sample programs are included on the disk written in QuickBASIC, C, and Pascal.
Findbase Routine
One of the programs included on the installation disk is a routine titled FINDBASE.EXE . This
program can be used to find an unused section of I/O memory to assign to the WDT100x-P. It
simplifies base address selection. The program will scan your computer's I/O ports for available
locations which would be suitable for the card. The program asks you to pick the number of address
bytes required from the supplied list. In this case, the WDT100x-P requires 5 address bytes for the
watchdog address so select 8 from the list. It will then present the first address location with that
much space available. The instructions are self explanatory. The WDT100x-P also requires 8 more
address byte for the communications port. You can assign the address to a standard COM port
address or just continue searching for another free 8-byte location. A test file, FINDBASE.TXT
contains more information on its use.