Chapter 2
Setup
PCI-Based MXI-2 Interface for Windows
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Caution
To guard against electrostatic discharge, touch the antistatic plastic package to a
metal part of your computer or chassis before removing the board from the package. Your
computer or chassis should be plugged in but powered off.
Install the PCI-MXI-2, PCI-MXI-2 Universal, or PXI-8320 in an available
peripheral slot in your PCI-based computer or PXI/CompactPCI chassis.
For more information, refer to the PCI-MXI-2, PCI-MXI-2 Universal, or
PXI-8320 chapter in the
MXI-2 Configuration Reference Manual
.
Installing Your Mainframe Extender
You also received either a VXI-MXI-2, VXI-MXI-2/B, or VME-MXI-2 in
your kit.
Caution
To guard against electrostatic discharge, touch the antistatic plastic package to a
metal part of your chassis before removing the module from the package. The VXI or VME
chassis should be plugged in but powered off.
Install the VXI-MXI-2 or VXI-MXI-2/B in the first slot of a VXI chassis,
or install the VME-MXI-2 in the first slot of a VME chassis.
The VXI/VME-MXI-2 default configuration automatically detects whether
it should be the VXI/VMEbus system controller. The VXI/VMEbus system
controllers operate certain VXI/VMEbus lines as required for VXI/VME
systems. Verify that any other VXI/VME devices with system controller
capability that are in the same chassis are not configured as system
controller.
Caution
Having more than one device configured as system controller can damage the
VXI/VME system.
For VXI systems that include VME devices, ensure that the VME devices
are not configured in the upper 16 KB (starting from 0xC000) of the A16
address space. This region is reserved for VXI device configuration
registers, which are used for initializing, configuring, and interacting with
VXI devices. The PCI-MXI-2, PCI-MXI-2 Universal, or PXI-8320 and
VME-MXI-2 also use this region for this purpose.
Also, ensure that no VXI devices in your system are configured for either
logical addresses 0 or 1. These are the default configurations for the
PCI-MXI-2, PCI-MXI-2 Universal, or PXI-8320 and the VXI-MXI-2,
respectively.
