User`s guide

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4. How to Add an Expansion Board.......................................... 46
5. How Disk Drives Work ........................................................... 48
How a Floppy Drive Works...................................................... 49
How an IDE Hard Drive Works................................................ 50
How a CD-ROM Drive Works.................................................. 51
6. How to Add System RAM....................................................... 52
Installing SIMMs...................................................................... 54
7. How to Add System Cache Memory ..................................... 56
8. How to Install an Optional SCSI Controller Chip................. 58
Hardware ................................................................................ 58
Software.................................................................................. 61
9. Special Notes on the Pantera 90........................................... 62
Mainboard Specifications.......................................................... 65
Mainboard Environmental Specifications ................................ 65
9-Pin Serial Port (J4) Pin Assignment ..................................... 66
25-Pin Serial Port (J3) Pin Assignment ................................... 66
Parallel Port (J2) Pin Assignment............................................ 68
SCSI Port Pin Assignment ...................................................... 70
Handy Cheat Sheet .................................................................... 71
Glossary ...................................................................................... 73
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