Black Box KV162A manual Connecting User Cables and Console Equipment to Your User Cards

SERVSWITCH™ MULTI

3.3 Connecting User Cables and Console Equipment to Your User Cards

Except for the local consoles on the Base Unit and MX, you’ll use User Cables to connect your consoles to the User Cards installed in your ServSwitch Multi. You will need one of these cables for each User-Card console in your system. These cables are 1 foot (0.3 m), 10 feet (3 m), or 20 feet (6.1 m) long and have an HD62 male connector on one end. They have different numbers of connectors on the other end, depending on the options you ordered (see Table 3-1 below and the corresponding subsections on the following pages). In order to connect a non-multisync monitor, you’ll also need a special adapter; see Section 3.3.4.

Things to be aware of when you make User-Cable connections of any type:

•As you attach the console equipment to each User-Interface Card, finish filling out the Card’s record in the System-Configuration Chart (see Appendix A).

•The Cable’s audio-strand connectors are very similar to each other, but the microphone strand has a blue band around it so that you can tell the two apart.

•Similarly, on some versions of the Cable, the mouse-strand connector is the same as the connector on the keyboard strand or serial-device strand, so the mouse strand has a yellow band around it so you can tell it apart.

•Some speakers, headphones, and microphones have plugs and jacks different from the type that the ServSwitch Multi’s audio cables are designed for. If this is the situation with your audio equipment, you will need adapters to connect your equipment to the ServSwitch Multi system. These adapters are commonly available; call your local electronics-supply store for more information.

•For serial connections, if you want to connect an Apple device or a serial device with a connector other than a DB9 female, see Appendix E.

Table 3-1. Product codes for User Cables.

Platform		Product Codes
	1' (0.3-m)	1' (0.3-m)	10' (3-m)	20' (6.1-m)
	Standard	w/ Audio	w/ Audio	w/ Audio
IBM PS/2 or PC/AT (Section 3.3.1)	KV2505	KV2515	KV2545	KV2585
Apple Macintosh (Section 3.3.2)	KV2700	KV2710	KV2740	N/A
Sun Microsystems (Section 3.3.3)	KV2800	KV2810	KV2840	KV2880

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