Specifications

VP 110/01x 4-1
Mass Storage Interfaces
The VP 110/01x board has three interfaces which can be used to attach mass storage devices:
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a floppy disk interface is accessible via the VME P2 connector.
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a Primary EIDE (ATA100) interface is accessible via the VME P2 connector.
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a Secondary EIDE (ATA100) interface supporting on-board Mass Storage option kits.
In addition, the Application Flash EPROM may be configured to operate as a ROM disk and the
Battery Backed SRAM configured to operate as a RAM disk.
The order in which the PC BIOS firmware tries to bootload from these drives can be changed via
the BIOS Setup screen for Boot.
4.1 Floppy Disk Interface
The floppy disk interface supports up to two drives of 360 Kbytes, 720 Kbytes, 1.2 Mbytes or
1.44 Mbytes capacities. It connects via the VME P2 connector of the VP 110/01x board or
through the Breakout Module.