KOUWELL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
KW-557
Data Bus | 16-bit ISA |
Card Size | Half-height, half-length card |
Hard Drives supported | Two IDE (AT) drives |
Floppy drives supported | Two 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB or 2.88MB drives |

CONNECTIONS | |||
Function | Location | Function | Location |
40-pin IDE(AT) connector | J1 | 10-pin serial port 1 | J5 |
34-pin cable connector - floppy drive | J2 | 25-pin parallel port - external | J6 |
16-pin game port | J3 | 4-pin connector - drive active LED | JP1 |
10-pin serial port 2 | J4 |
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USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS | |||
Function | Label | Position | |
| » | Floppy drive primary address is 3F0h | JP11 | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
Floppy drive secondary address is 370h | JP11 | Pins 1 & 2 closed | |
| » | Floppy drive interface enabled | JP14 | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
Floppy drive interface disabled | JP14 | Pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | Parallel port IRQ 7 select | JP16 | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
Parallel port IRQ 5 select | JP16 | Pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | Game port enabled | JP21 | Closed |
Game port disabled | JP21 | Open | |
| » | IDE(AT) interface enabled | JP15 | Pins 1 & 2 closed |
IDE(AT) interface disabled | JP15 | Pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | IDE primary address is 1F0h | JP10 | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
IDE secondary address is 170h | JP10 | Pins 1 & 2 closed | |
PARALLEL PORT ADDRESS SELECTION | ||
Setting | JP7 | |
| » | LPT1 (378h) | Pins 1 & 3, 4 & 6 closed |
LPT2 (278h) | Pins 1 & 3, 2 & 4 closed | |
Disabled | Pins 3 & 5, 4 & 6 closed | |
SERIAL PORT 1 ADDRESS SELECTION | ||
Setting | JP5 | |
| » | COM1 (3F8h) | Pins 1 & 3, 2 & 4 closed |
COM2 (2F8h) | Pins 1 & 3, 4 & 6 closed | |
COM3 (3E8h) | Pins 2 & 4, 3 & 5 closed | |
Disabled | Pins 3 & 5, 4 & 6 closed | |
SERIAL PORT 2 ADDRESS SELECTION | ||
Setting | JP6 | |
COM1 (3F8h) | Pins 1 & 3, 4 & 6 closed | |
| » | COM2 (2F8h) | Pins 1 & 3, 2 & 4 closed |
COM4 (2E8h) | Pins 2 & 4, 3 & 5 closed | |
Disabled | Pins 3 & 5, 4 & 6 closed | |
SERIAL PORT 1 INTERRUPT SELECTION | ||||||
IRQ | JP13/1 | JP13/2 | JP13/3 | JP13/4 | JP13/5 | |
IRQ3 | Open | 1 & 2 | Open | Open | Open | |
| » | IRQ4 | Open | Open | 1 & 2 | Open | Open |
IRQ5 | Open | Open | Open | 1 & 2 | Open | |
IRQ9 | Open | Open | Open | Open | 1 & 2 | |
IRQ12 | 1 & 2 | Open | Open | Open | Open | |
Note: Designated pins should be in closed position. | ||||||
SERIAL PORT 2 INTERRUPT SELECTION | ||||||
IRQ | JP13/1 | JP13/2 | JP13/3 | JP13/4 | JP13/5 | |
| » | IRQ3 | Open | 2 & 3 | Open | Open | Open |
IRQ4 | Open | Open | 2 & 3 | Open | Open | |
IRQ5 | Open | Open | Open | 2 & 3 | Open | |
IRQ9 | Open | Open | Open | Open | 2 & 3 | |
IRQ12 | 2 & 3 | Open | Open | Open | Open | |
Note: Designated pins should be in closed position. | ||||||
PARALLEL PORT MODE SELECTION | |||
Setting | JP9 | JP12 | |
| » | Uni-directional | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed |
EPP | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed | |
ECP | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed | |
Bi-Directional (EPP/ECP) | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed | |
PARALLEL PORT DMA SELECTION | |||
Setting | JP17 | JP18 | |
1 | Pins 2 & 3 closed | Pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | 3 | Pins 1 & 2 closed | Pins 1 & 2 closed |