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C. Customer Support

Once you have an RMA number, follow these steps to return your product to Ziatech:

1. Contact Ziatech for pricing if the warranty expired.

2. Supply a purchase order number for invoicing the repair if the warranty expired.

3. Pack the board in anti-static material and ship in a sturdy cardboard box with

enough packing material to adequately cushion it.

Note:

Any product returned to Ziatech improperly packed will immediately void the

warranty for that particular product!

4. Mark the RMA number clearly on the outside of the box.

ZIATECH WARRANTY

Warranty information for Ziatech products is available at Ziatech’s website, located at

http://www.ziatech.com

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IBM PC/AT, PS/2, and MCA are registered trademarks of International Business
Machines, Inc.

STD 32 is a registered trademark of Ziatech Corporation. STD 32 STAR SYSTEM is a
trademark of Ziatech Corporation.

All other brand and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective holders.

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Summary of Contents for ZT 8954

Page 1: ...service in house repair center WE BUY USED EQUIPMENT Sell your excess underutilized and idle used equipment We also offer credit for buy backs and trade ins www artisantg com WeBuyEquipment REMOTE IN...

Page 2: ...ZT 8954 Low Profile Floppy Disk Controller Hardware User Manual Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE www artisantg com...

Page 3: ...RATION 13 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 13 WHY IS THE ZT 8954 IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH OLDER CPU BOARDS 13 WHAT FLOPPY DISK DRIVES ARE SUPPORTED BY THE ZT 8954 13 HOW DO I USE FRONTPLANE DMA 13 HOW DO I REMO...

Page 4: ...RATURE 33 OPERATING TEMPERATURE 33 DC OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS 33 SUPPLY CURRENT VCC 34 NON CONDENSING RELATIVE HUMIDITY 34 STD BUS LOADING CHARACTERISTICS 34 MECHANICAL 37 CARD DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT...

Page 5: ...tions Chapter 3 Theory of Operation presents an operational view of the ZT 8954 s hardware Each of the board s functions is described in detail and some common concerns are addressed Chapter 4 FDC Des...

Page 6: ...ded and with a mounting bracket to extend the drive out for use in card cages with front bezels for example the ZT 250 Mechanically the ZT 8954 is compatible with both the STD and the STD 32 bus speci...

Page 7: ...ted Floppy Disk Drive 5 25 3 5 or 3 5 Slimline Bus Interface Interrupts External Floppy Interface Functional Block Diagram STD 32 Bus Interface STD bus interface logic decodes the I O address for cycl...

Page 8: ...ytes 300 Kbytes 500 Kbytes and 1 Mbytes per second are supported through program control Perpendicular recording mode is supported for 2 88 Mbyte floppy disk drives An on board 16 byte FIFO provides i...

Page 9: ...ier and Ziatech for an insurance settlement Retain the original shipping carton and packing material for inspection by the carrier Save the anti static bag for storing or returning the ZT 8954 Do not...

Page 10: ...to the left of the ZT 8954 should be chosen with care so that they do not exceed the maximum height limit Should this happen select another board to install next to the ZT 8954 Note that the top of t...

Page 11: ...al when compared to the 3 drives Jumpers W6 and W7 let you select the sense of this signal By default W7 is in this selects the proper logic level for DENSEL for 3 drives Refer to the description of W...

Page 12: ...3 drives Refer to Appendix A Jumper Configurations for details FRONTPLANE CONNECTORS As shown in the Connector Locations drawing the ZT 8954 includes six frontplane connectors to interface to applica...

Page 13: ...for a power cable connection location for remote floppy disk drives STD 32 COMPLIANCE STD 32 peripherals are required to meet certain compliance standards This allows the system integrator to match c...

Page 14: ...nterface compatible such as the Colorado Memory Systems JUMBO tape drives How Do I Use Frontplane DMA The ZT 8954 is capable of frontplane DMA but only as a special option from Ziatech ZT 8954 D3 The...

Page 15: ...lt for data transfers Data Transfers The floppy disk controller supports both polled and DMA driven data transfers Standard MS DOS uses DMA by default for moving data back and forth between the host C...

Page 16: ...or all of the FDC registers These registers are further described in Chapter 4 FDC Description 82078 Floppy Disk Controller I O Registers I O Port Address I O Read Function I O Write Function 3F0h Sta...

Page 17: ...ultiprocessing operations the floppy disk interface is shared between CPUs in the backplane Because different CPU boards are supported by different floppy disk interfaces the STD 32 STAR SYSTEM allows...

Page 18: ...a large amount of bus latency The following 82078 Block Diagram below shows a block diagram of the 82078 floppy disk controller PRECOMP SERIAL INTERFACE LOGIC WRITE CLK GENERATOR FLOPPY DISK DRIVE IN...

Page 19: ...uires the 1 Mbps data rate of the 82078 At this data rate the FIFO eases the host interface bottleneck due to the speed of data transfer to or from the disk if utilized STATUS DATA AND CONTROL REGISTE...

Page 20: ...3F1h Default This register is read only and monitors the state of several disk interface pins This register is part of the PS 2 register set 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 DRIVE SEL0 1 MOT WE WRDATA TOGGLE RDDATA TO...

Page 21: ...VERT low these signals are active low on the interface Standard programming practice is to set both MOT ENx and DRIVE SELx bits at the same time The Drive Activation Values table lists a set of DOR va...

Page 22: ...and 1 the TAPESEL0 and TAPESEL1 bits allow you to select which drive is to be configured for tape drive support as shown in the Tape Drive Register Selection table The Tape Select bits are hardware R...

Page 23: ...violate the timing 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 DRATE SEL1 S W RESET PRE COMP POWER DOWN PDOSC DRATE SEL0 2 PRE COMP 1 PRE COMP 0 Datarate Select Register Bit 7 S W RESET behaves the same as DOR RESET except that...

Page 24: ...derstood and the 82078 compensates the data pattern as it is written to the disk The amount of precompensation is dependent upon the drive and media but in most cases the default value is acceptable T...

Page 25: ...125 ns 300 Kbps 125 ns 200 Kbps 125 ns Main Status Register MSR 3F4h Default The Main Status Register is a read only register used to control command input and result output for all commands 7 6 5 4 3...

Page 26: ...es Data transfers are governed by the RQM and DIO bits in the Main Status Register The FIFO defaults to PC AT compatible mode after any form of reset This maintains PC AT hardware compatibility The de...

Page 27: ...1 x 16 s 1 5 s 14 5 s 2 bytes 2 x 16 s 1 5 s 30 5 s 8 bytes 8 x 16 s 1 5 s 126 5 s 15 bytes 15 x 16 s 1 5 s 238 5 s Digital Input Register DIR 3F7h Default This register senses the state of the DSKCHG...

Page 28: ...2078 out of the power down state On entering the reset state all operations are terminated and the 82078 enters an idle state Activating reset while a disk write activity is in progress will corrupt t...

Page 29: ...e set of needed parameters and status results The 82078 checks to see if the first byte is a valid command and if valid proceeds with the command Refer to the 82078 data sheet for details on the COMMA...

Page 30: ...jumpers JUMPER OPTIONS ZT 8954 jumper locations are illustrated in the Customer Jumper Locations figure use this figure to document your jumper configuration if it differs from the factory default se...

Page 31: ...loppy Interface Interrupt Selection DMA Mode Selection Factory Default Jumper Configuration ZT 8954 FLOPPY DISK INTERFACE BOARD J1 J4 J3 J2 W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 W10 W11 W12 W13 W14 W15 W16 W17 W...

Page 32: ...ecific DMA Mode 1 frontplane DMA Mode 3 or a combination of frontplane and backplane signals for use in STD 80 backplanes Mode 0 The control signals are DMAIOR DMAIOW and T C for the backplane and DMA...

Page 33: ...erted W8 Invert DRVDEN1 to floppy drive when in W9 Drive DRVDEN1 to floppy drive directly non inverted W10 Drive Write protect circuitry with WE from FDC W11 Factory Test option Do not install with W1...

Page 34: ...0 01 slimline drive Absolute Maximum Ratings Supply Voltage Vcc 0 to 7 V Supply Voltage AUX V 0 to 13 V Storage Temperature ZT 8954 D0 40 to 85 C ZT 8954 D1 Integrated Floppy 20 to 60 C Operating Temp...

Page 35: ...rds In the STD bus systems one unit load is equal to one LSTTL load as follows Maximum high level input current 20 Amps Maximum low level input current 400 Amps The STD bus unit load reflects input cu...

Page 36: ...S A GROUND VBATT NC D3 A19 D2 A18 D1 A17 D0 A16 A7 A6 A5 A4 A3 A2 A1 A0 WR IORQ IOEXP INTRQ1 STATUS 1 BUSAK INTAK NC WAITRQ SYSRESET CLOCK PCO B AUX GND AUX V 2 4 6 1 3 5 1 1 1 1 59 59 59 59 8 10 12 1...

Page 37: ...E28 E30 E32 E25 E27 E29 E31 E34 E36 E38 E40 E33 E35 E37 E39 E42 E44 E46 E48 E41 E43 E45 E47 E49 E51 E53 E55 PIN CIRCUIT SIDE OUTPUT DRIVE INPUT LOAD MNEMONIC PIN COMPONENT SIDE OUTPUT DRIVE INPUT LOA...

Page 38: ...grated Floppy Disk Controller the ZT 8954 also requires just one slot The figure Board Dimensions shows the mechanical dimensions of the ZT 8954 The ZT 8954 D3 requires three STD card slots Board Leng...

Page 39: ...illustration the ZT 8954 includes six connectors to interface to the STD bus and application specific devices The following topics provide descriptions of the individual connectors Connector assignmen...

Page 40: ...interface the ZT 8954 to the STD 32 bus This connector combines with the P connector to make a 114 pin dual 57 pin card edge connector with fingers on 0 0625 inch contact spacing The mating connector...

Page 41: ...E34 P21 P22 E35 E36 P23 P24 E37 E38 P25 P26 E39 E40 P27 P28 E41 E42 P29 P30 E43 E44 P31 P32 E45 E46 P33 P34 E47 E48 P35 P36 E49 E50 P37 P38 E51 E52 P39 P40 E53 E54 P41 P42 E55 E56 P43 P44 E57 E58 P45...

Page 42: ...g J1 DMA Port Pinout table The floppy disk controller can use this connector to request service from the DMA controller on the ZT 8954 The mating connector is a T B Ansley 622 1030 This connector is n...

Page 43: ...interfacing to drives with minimal cable twisting J2 or J3 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 33 31 29 27 25 23 19 21 17 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1 DRVDEN 0 NC DRVDEN 1 INDEX ME1 DS0 DS1 ME0 DIREC...

Page 44: ...to 0 5 meters in length J4 or J6 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 25 23 19 21 17 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1 5V INDEX DISK CHANGE DS0 GND ME0 DIRECTION STEP WDATA WRITE PROTECT TRACK 0 MEDID0 MEDID1 5V 5V NC...

Page 45: ...l floppy 20 inch cable for connecting non integrated 3 and 5 floppy drives to the ZT 8954 controller ZT 90172 20 power cable 2 5 1 VIOLET PIN 1 BLACK BLACK RED CONNECTOR IS AMP 170204 2 x4 HOUSING IS...

Page 46: ...FEMALE 34 PIN CARD EDGE CONNECTOR 20 0 25 PIN 1 DRIVE B DRIVE A 2 0 0 25 2 0 0 25 2 0 0 25 ZT 90077 Floppy 20 Inch Cable 20 0 25 YELLOW PIN 1 GREY BLACK RED CONNECTOR IS AMP 170204 2 x4 HOUSING IS AM...

Page 47: ...ra care in the design of the ZT 8954 in order to ensure reliability The product was designed in top down fashion using the latest in hardware and software design techniques so that unwanted side effec...

Page 48: ...duct 4 Mark the RMA number clearly on the outside of the box ZIATECH WARRANTY Warranty information for Ziatech products is available at Ziatech s website located at http www ziatech com TRADEMARKS EIS...

Page 49: ...e San Luis Obispo CA 93401 USA Tel 805 541 0488 FAX 805 541 5088 E Mail tech_support ziatech com Internet http www ziatech com Artisan Technology Group Quality Instrumentation Guaranteed 888 88 SOURCE...

Page 50: ...service in house repair center WE BUY USED EQUIPMENT Sell your excess underutilized and idle used equipment We also offer credit for buy backs and trade ins www artisantg com WeBuyEquipment REMOTE IN...

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