User`s manual

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Connecting the Parallel Printer Port
Attach the DB-25 printer port cable to connector J5 on the G586IPC system
board. Make sure the colored stripe on the ribbon cable aligns with pin 1 of
connector J5. Use a small nutdriver to mount the cable into a DB-25 cutout
in the system chassis. If your printer port cable is attached to a card-edge
bracket, connect the cable to connector J5 on the system board and
mount the card-edge bracket to the system chassis.
Floppy Disk Drive Controller
The G586IPC system board is equipped with a shrouded floppy disk
header that supports two standard floppy disk drives. You can install
any 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, or 2.88MB floppy disk drives. To
prevent improper floppy cable installation, the shrouded floppy disk
header has a keying mechanism. The 34-pin connector on the floppy
cable can be placed into the header only if pin 1 of the connector is
aligned with pin 1 of the header.
Connecting the Floppy Disk Cable
1. Install the 34-pin header connector into the shrouded floppy disk
header (J4) on the system board. The colored edge of the ribbon
should be aligned with pin 1 of connector J4.
2. Install the other 34-pin header connector(s) into the disk drive(s).
Align the colored edge of the daisy chained ribbon cable with pin 1
of the drive edge connector(s). The end-most connector should be
attached to the drive you want to designate as Drive A.
Parallel Port
The G586IPC system board has a standard connector for interfacing
your PC to a parallel printer. The parallel port on your system board can
be set to any of the following system I/O addresses:
I/O Address 3BC-3BE Hex
378-37A Hex (default)
278-27A Hex