User`s manual

1. Introduction
1.1 General Information
The PCD2-F PCMCIA Card Drive allows ISA bus personal computers to use PCMCIA
memory cards as solid state diskettes, or as an interface for I/O cards.
The PCD2-F provides many features to the computer user. The PCMCIA Card Drives
are much faster than standard diskettes. No mechanical moving parts are used, resulting in
significantly greater reliability. Data can be conveniently transported between laptop computers
equipped with PCMCIA sockets and desktop computers equipped with the PCD2-F.
This dual slot drive is to be installed into one 3.5" or 5.25" floppy drive bay, the latter
requiring the Quatech PCD2 adapter. The upper slot is ’slot 0’ and the lower slot is ’slot 1.’ The
system can support Type I, Type II, Type III, and Type IV PC Cards. It is PCMCIA 2.1/JEDIA
4.1 compliant. The PCD2-F also supports ATA card drives.
The system can be obtained with an optional boot ROM for system booting from a
memory card and/or an optional Microsoft Flash File System.
The drive also supports the full line of Quatech Cards, including RS-232, RS-422/485 in
single or multi-port versions. It supports data acquisition cards with 12-bit or 16-bit resolution.
Multi-protocol adapters, providing asynchronous, monosync, BISYNC, SDLC, and HDLC
protocols are supported. Parallel port adapters operated in EPP mode are also supported.
Cardsoft software, from Systemsoft, is included for support in MS-DOS, and WINDOWS
3.1x. WINDOWS 95 and OS/2 have built in Support for PCMCIA Cards.
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