Updating your server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Connecting external options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing the external SCSI connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing the second serial connector
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Connecting an external device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Cabling the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Keyboard cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Pointing device cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Parallel port cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Serial cabling
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Advanced System Management Interconnect cabling . . . . . . . . . . 70
USB cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Video cabling
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Gigabit Ethernet cabling
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Power cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Installing the server in a rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Chapter 3. Input/output ports
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Parallel port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Viewing or changing the parallel-port assignments . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Parallel port connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Video port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Keyboard port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Auxiliary-device (pointing device) port
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Ultra320 SCSI system-board connectors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SCSI cabling requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
SCSI IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
SCSI connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Serial ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Viewing or changing the serial-port assignments
. . . . . . . . . . . 75
Serial-port connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Universal Serial Bus version 1.1 ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
USB cables and hubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
USB-port connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Gigabit Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Ethernet connector
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
RS-485 (ASM interconnect) ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Appendix. Notices
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Edition notice
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Important notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Electronic emission notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statement . . . . . . . . . 81
Industry Canada Class A emission compliance statement . . . . . . . . 81
Australia and New Zealand Class A statement . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
United Kingdom telecommunications safety requirement. . . . . . . . . 82
European Union EMC Directive conformance statement . . . . . . . . . 82
Taiwan electrical emission statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Japanese Voluntary Control Council for Interference (VCCI) statement
. . . 83
Power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Index
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
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