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Table of Contents
1. Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
2. Obtaining Driver....................................................................................................................................2
3. Driver Installation .................................................................................................................................2
4. Verifying Driver Installation.................................................................................................................5
5. Serial Port Properties Sheet................................................................................................................6
6. Serial Port Features and Mode Changes ...........................................................................................9
7. Direct Memory Access (DMA) ...........................................................................................................13
8. Parallel Port Features and Mode Changes ......................................................................................14
9. Uninstalling Drivers............................................................................................................................14
10. Technical Support ..............................................................................................................................15
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1. Introduction
This document describes the software driver installation / Un-installation procedure for MosChip
MCS9865 PCI to Serial / Parallel Device
2. Obtaining Driver
MCS9865 software drivers can be downloadable from www.moschip.com. Contact
techsupport@moschip.com for details
3. Driver Installation
Attention: If you are installing MCS9865 Drivers on Vista 64 Bit, restart the system and while booting
press “F8” Select “Disable Driver Signature Enforcement” option and press enter. This procedure is
required for in-stalling un-singed drivers (Drivers not certified by Microsoft) only. Same is not applicable
when the drivers are signed by Microsoft.
Ignore above note if you are installing MCS9865 drivers on Vista 32 bit.
Installing drivers for the first time
Make sure that you have not inserted PCI card into PCI slot.
• Run “PCIsetup.exe” file from the driver disk folder.
• PCISetup window will be popped up as shown below
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• Click on “Install” button to install the drivers automatically. During the installation “Windows
security” wizard will appear twice saying that Windows can’t verify the publisher.
• Select “Install this driver software anyway” to install the drivers.
• Click on “Exit” and shutdown the PC. Place the MCS9865 based PCI card into PCI slot and then
power on the system. After the system boots, the drivers are installed automatically and the
status of installation can be viewed in the taskbar.
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• To check the installed driver’s status, click on the popup.
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4. Verifying Driver Installation
MCS9865 device detection and driver installation can be confirmed from Device Manager. For Example
proper detection of the MCS9865 PCI Card (2 Serial + 1 Parallel) can be confirmed by viewing the Device
manager as shown below:
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5. Serial Port Properties Sheet
In the Device Manager Right Click on required Port and then click on “Properties” Option to open the
Properties page of the serial port.
General Tab
The “General” Tab provides you details about “Device Type”, “Manufacturer” and “Device Status”.
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Port Settings Tab
The “Port Settings” TAB is used to configure parameters of the Serial Port.
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Bits per Second selection is used to set the default Baud rate settings.
Data bits selection will have options 4,5,6,7 and 8 data bits.
Parity selection will have Even, Odd, None, Mark and Space parity settings.
Stop bits selection will have 1, 1.5 and 2 selections.
Flow Control selection will have Xon/Xoff, Hardware and None settings.
If you want to change the Port Number click on “Change Port Number” and select the required Port
Number as shown below:
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Driver Tab
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The Driver Tab shows the details of Driver Provider, Driver Release Date, Driver version is installed on
your PC and Digital Signer details as shown above.
Resource Tab
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The Resource Tab gives the details of IRQ, IO Ranges and Memory ranges that are assigned to a
particular Serial Port.
Advanced Tab allows the user to configure Serial Port Features and Mode changes as explained below.
6. Serial Port Features and Mode Changes
By default every serial Port will be in RS 232 Mode. Serial port can also be set to RS 422 or RS 485
Mode. Select the appropriate Radio button as shown below:
Selecting RS 422 Mode
Select the RS 422 Radio button to select the RS 422 Mode.
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Selecting RS 485 Mode
After selecting RS 485 Radio button you will have different Mode settings like Full Duplex, Half Duplex
and Half Duplex Echo. You can select as per your requirement.
Selecting Hardware Flow Control
To enable Hardware flow control, select the “Auto Hardware Flow Control”. This enables RTS / CTS
Hardware Flow control for the selected serial port. This setting is applicable only for RS 232 Mode only.
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Configuring Advanced Baud rates
To Configure Advanced Baud rates click on “Adv Baudrates” button.
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By default “Use Standard Baudrates” option is enabled.
To configure custom Baud rate select “Use Custom Baudrate”.
Note: When “Use Custom Baudrate” is selected, Serial Port baudrate is independent of the value set in
the Application
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When an external clock option is selected then the value of the external clock must be entered in the text
box provided against “Use External Clock column”.
Custom baud rates can be obtained by selecting required Input clock, DLL DLM and sampling clock
Values. The calculated baud rate will be shown in the Text Box provided for it.
To calculate the custom bauds please refer Custom Baud Application Note or contact
techsupport@moschip.com.
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7. Direct Memory Access (DMA)
Selecting DMA mode.
For Selecting DMA Mode click on DMA Settings on Advanced TAB as shown below:
ÆTo enable DMA Mode selects “TX DMA Enable” and “Rx DMA Enable” check box options.
ÆSuitable value for Inter Character Gap (ICG) has to be set for special application like RAID controller
devices.
ÆTo enable 9bit Mode support, Select “Enable 9-Bit Mode”.
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8. Parallel Port Features and Mode Changes
Parallel Port Features
Parallel port will support SPP / CBFIFO / EPP / ECP modes. Parallel port mode will be automatically
configured to the required mode after handshaking with the connected device.
9. Uninstalling Drivers
Using Uninstall Utility:
To Uninstall MCS9865 drivers, run “MOSCHIP_PCIUninst.exe” available in the driver disk. PCI Multi-I/O
Drivers Uninstall window will be displayed as shown below. Click on OK button.
Click on Exit button to complete un-installation process. No need to restart the PC, unless prompted by
the OS.
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From Add/Remove Programs
The MCS9865 drivers can also be un-installed/removed from PC through Control Panel Æ Add/Remove
Programs. In Add/Remove programs, select “PCI Multi I/O Controller” and click on Remove button.
From Device Manager
The MCS9865 drivers can be un-installed through device manager. In Device Manager, under Ports
(COM & LPT) category, select the “High-Speed PCI Serial Port (COM X)”, right click on it and selects
“Uninstall”. OS will prompt for confirm device removal, click on “OK” to uninstall the drivers. In this method
each and every port has to be uninstalled separately.
10. Technical Support
For queries and support contact techsupport@moschip.com.
Revision History
Date Reason for change Version
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15th April 2008 Document update per internal review 0.2
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
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