KOUWELL ELECTRONIC CORPORATION
KW558A
Card Type | Hard drive controller card |
Hard Drives supported | Two IDE (AT) drives |
Floppy drives supported | Two 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, or 1.44MB drives |
Data Bus | 32-bit VESA Local Bus |
Card Size | Three-quarter length, full-height card |

CONNECTIONS | |||
Function | Location | Function | Location |
40-pin primary IDE(AT) connector | J1 | 16-pin game port | J5 |
10-pin serial port 2 - internal | J2 | 25-pin parallel port - external | J6 |
10-pin serial port 2 - internal | J3 | 4-pin connector - drive active LED | LED1 |
34-pin cable connector - floppy drive | J4 | ||
USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS | |||
Function | Label | Position | |
| » | Floppy drive interface enabled | JP2/G | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
| Floppy drive interface disabled | JP2/G | Pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | Floppy drive primary address is 3F0-3F7h | JP2/I | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
| Floppy drive secondary address is 370-377h | JP2/I | Pins 1 & 2 closed | |
| » | Game port enabled | JP2/K | Closed |
| Game port disabled | JP2/K | Open | |
IDE DRIVE SPEED SELECTION | ||
Speed | JP1/A | JP1/B |
0 | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
2 | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
4 | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
6 | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
DMA CHANNEL SELECTION | ||
Channel | JP3/J | JP3/K |
1 | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
3 | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
PARALLEL PORT ADDRESS SELECTION | ||
Setting | JP2/A | JP2/B |
LPT1 (378h) | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
LPT2 (278h) | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
LPT3 (3BCh) | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
Disabled | Pins 2 7 3 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
SERIAL PORT 1 ADDRESS SELECTION | ||
Setting | JP2/E | JP2/F |
COM1 (3F8h) | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
COM2 (2F8h) | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
COM3 (3E8h) | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
Disabled | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
SERIAL PORT 2 ADDRESS SELECTION | ||
Setting | JP2/C | JP2/D |
COM1 (3F8h) | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
COM2 (2F8h) | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
COM4 (2E8h) | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
Disabled | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
SERIAL PORT 1 INTERRUPT SELECTION | ||||||||
IRQ | JP3/A | JP3/B | JP3/C | JP3/D | JP3/E | JP3/F | JP3/G | JP3/H |
IRQ3 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | 1 & 2 |
IRQ4 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | 1 & 2 | Open |
IRQ5 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | 1 & 2 | Open | Open |
IRQ9 | Open | Open | Open | Open | 1 & 2 | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ10 | Open | Open | Open | 1 & 2 | Open | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ11 | Open | Open | 1 & 2 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ12 | Open | 1 & 2 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ15 | 1 & 2 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
Note: Pins designated should be in the closed position. | ||||||||
SERIAL PORT 2 INTERRUPT SELECTION | ||||||||
IRQ | JP3/A | JP3/B | JP3/C | JP3/D | JP3/E | JP3/F | JP3/G | JP3/H |
IRQ3 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | 2 & 3 |
IRQ4 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | 2 & 3 | Open |
IRQ5 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | 2 & 3 | Open | Open |
IRQ9 | Open | Open | Open | Open | 2 & 3 | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ10 | Open | Open | Open | 2 & 3 | Open | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ11 | Open | Open | 2 & 3 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ12 | Open | 2 & 3 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ15 | 2 & 3 | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
Note: Pins designated should be in the closed position. | ||||||||
PARALLEL PORT INTERRUPT SELECTION | |
IRQ | JP3/I |
IRQ7 | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
IRQ5 | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
PARALLEL PORT MODE SELECTION | ||
Setting | JP2/H | JP2/J |
Uni-directional | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
EPP | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
ECP | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
EPP+ECP | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |