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Page 1: ...Network Station Installation Guide IBM PC ...

Page 2: ...ING MATERIALS MUST BE USED If this product is delivered by mail you agree to insure the product or assu me the risk o f loss or damage in transit to prepay shipping cha rges to the warranty service location and to use the original shipping container Contact Corv us Systems or write to Corvus Customer Service 2 I00 Corvus Drive San Jose CA 9 5124 priorto shipping equipment ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED W...

Page 3: ...Pa rt Number 7lCXHl476 1 OMNINET Network Station Installation Guide IBM Document Number IBM 23 1 1 1 0 Release Date March 1983 Revision A IBM Personal Computer is a trademark of the IBM Corporation ...

Page 4: ...Systems Inc reserves the right to make changes in the product described in this manual at any time without notice Revised manuals will be published as needed and may be purchased from authorized Corvus Systems dealers This manual is copyrighted All rights reserved This document may not in whole or in part be copied photocopied reproduced translated or reduced to any elec tronic medium or machine r...

Page 5: ...Table of Contents Introduction Hardware Required 3 Installing a Network Tap 5 Connecting Your IBM PC to the Network 7 Extending Your OMNINET Cable 17 lll ...

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Page 7: ...our IBM Personal Computer to a Corvus OMNINET network Before beginning this guide you should complete the DISK SERVER INSTALLATION GUIDE which tells you how to set up your OMNINET network and attach your disk system and disk server to the network 1 ...

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Page 9: ...rter card for the IBM PC Small metal plate Tap cable Tap box Plate Transporter Tap Box Tap Cable If your computer is farther than l 5 feet 4 5 m from the OMNINET cable you will need the following additional items Two tap boxes New piece of OMNINET cable twice as long as the distance from the existing OMNINET cable to your computer 3 ...

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Page 11: ...uter is farther than 15 feet 4 5 m from the OMNINET cable go to the Extending Your OMNINET Cable section of this guide on page 17 If the computer is within 15 feet of the cable go on to step 2 Remove insulation from the OMNINET cable Find the point on the OMNINET cable which is closest to your computer Use a knife to cut through the outer insulation of the cable Remove about 2 inches 5 cm of this ...

Page 12: ...p box Insert the cable wires into the tap box In one half of the tap box are two wire guides Push the black wire from the OMNINET cable into the BLACK wire guide and the red wire into the RED wire guide Close the tap box 6 ...

Page 13: ...er the next step is to install the Corvus transporter card into your computer and to connect a tap cable to the transporter card and tap box When you have completed these steps your computer will be set up as an OMNINET network station 1 Plug a tap cable into the tap box for your computer 7 ...

Page 14: ...2 Set the device address for your computer Hold the Corvus transporter card with the metal fingers down At the top left of the card is a switch unit SWITCH UNIT Transporter Card and Switch Unit 8 ...

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Page 17: ...3 4 Unscrew the screws which hold the cover on your computer Pull the cover of the computer forward Removing the Coverfrom the IBM 11 ...

Page 18: ...mputer are five access plates next to five slots on the computer s circuit board Find an unused slot and unscrew the top screw from the metal plate which is closest to the slot Remove the plate by sliding it upward Pass the free end of the tap cable through the access port 12 ...

Page 19: ...e transporter card 8 Slide Transporter card into empty slot in IBM 7 Connect tap cable to trans porter card I 5 Remove plate to open access port 6 Pass cable through access port Installing the Transporter Card into the Computer 13 ...

Page 20: ...he empty slot in your computer Close the access port Put the metal plate which came with your transporter card in place of the one you took out Use the screw which you took out before to hold the plate in place Closing the Access Port 14 ...

Page 21: ...inished setting up your IBM computer as a network station Where to go from here If you have not yet initialized your Corvus disk system go to the DISK INITIALIZATION GUIDE FOR THE IBM If you already have a working OMNINET network go to the SYSTEM MANAGER S GUIDE FOR THE IBM 15 ...

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Page 23: ... of twisted pair cable Measure the distance from your computer to the point where you just cut the OMNINET cable Double this distance and cut a piece of cable of this length from a roll of cable like the OMNINET cable This piece of cable will become an extension of the OMNINET cable The length of the piece of cable plus the length of the OMNINET cable must not be more than 1000 feet 3O5 m If you n...

Page 24: ...tion from the ends of the piece of cable that you made in step 2 Don t take the insulation off the inner wires Remove the insulation from the cut ends of the OMNINET cable Cut off 1 5 inches 4 cm of outer insulation from each cut end of the OMNINET cable Don t take the insulation off the inner wires 18 ...

Page 25: ...Connect one end of the new piece of cable to the tap box In one half of the tap box are two wire guides Push the black wire at one end of the piece of cable into the BLACK wire guide Push the red wire into the RED wire guide 19 ...

Page 26: ...d red wires from one of the cut ends of the OMNINET cable into the BLACK and RED wire guides on top of the wires from the cable piece Make sure that both red wires are together in the RED wire guide and both black wires are together in the BLACK wire guide A Cable Splice 20 ...

Page 27: ...8 Close the tap box 21 ...

Page 28: ... and follow instructions 5 through 8 for the remaining free ends of the OMNINET cable and cable piece When you are done you will have created a large loop in the OMNINET cable 01y rr 0 II II I I I A Loop in the OMNINET Cable 10 Go to step 2 on page 5 22 ...

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