NCL AMERICA
NCL 5355, NCL 5356
Data bus: 16-bit, ISA
Size: Half-length, full-height card
Hard drives supported: Two ESDI RLL drives
Floppy drives supported: NCL 5355:Two 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, or 1.44MB
NCL 5356:None
Maximum heads/cyl.: 16 heads and 2048 cylinders

CONNECTIONS | |
34-pin control cable connector-hard drive | CN1 |
20-pin data cable connector-drive 0 | CN2 |
20-pin data cable connector-drive 1 | CN3 |
34-pin data cable connector-floppy drive (NCL 5355 only) | CN4 |
4-pin connector-drive active LED | CN5 |
USER CONFIGURABLE SETTINGS | |||
Function | Location | Setting | |
| » | Hard drive port address 1F0-1F7h | JP1 | pins 1 & 2 closed |
Hard drive port address 170-177h | JP1 | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | System ROM is 128KB | JP2 | pins 2 & 3 closed |
System ROM is 256KB | JP2 | pins 1 & 2 closed | |
| » | BIOS ROM is 256KB | JP3 | pins 1 & 2 closed |
BIOS ROM is 128KB | JP3 | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | Factory configured - do not alter | JP4 | N/A |
| » | Factory configured - do not alter | JP5 | closed |
| » | Factory configured - do not alter | JP6 | open |
| » | Floppy drive port address is 3F2-3F7h | JP7 | closed |
Floppy drive port address is 372-377h | JP7 | open | |
| » | Factory configured - do not alter | JP8 | open |
| » | Factory configured - do not alter | JP9 | all |
| » | Cache enabled | JP10 | open |
Cache disabled | JP10 | closed | |
| » | Sector sparing enabled | JP11 | closed |
Sector sparing disabled | JP11 | open | |
| » | Factory configured - do not alter | JP12 | N/A |
| » | Buffer size is 64KB | JP13 | closed |
Buffer size is 16KB | JP13 | open | |
| » | Buffer size is 32KB | JP14 | pins 1 & 2 closed |
Buffer size is 8KB | JP14 | pins 2 & 3 closed | |
| » | Factory configured - do not alter | JP15 | closed |