Sun Microsystems 280R manual Multi-initiator Support

The following figures provide a summary of the cabling guidelines.

System

Non-Sun device

Sun device

Autoterminating

Sun device

68 - 68 68 - 68 68 - 68

System

Sun device

Autoterminating Sun device

50-pin device

				T
			Terminator
68 - 68	68 - 68	68 -50

Adapter cable

Multi-initiator Support

The SCSI implementation of the system includes multi-initiator support: any external host adapter on the bus can drive Termpower. This means that if the system should lose power, the devices on the SCSI bus (except those powered by the system) can continue to operate.

100 Sun Fire 280R Server Owner’s Guide • January 2001