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Expander RS-232C Port Pin Assignment
4.1 Expander RS-232C Port Pin Assignment
To ensure proper communications between 6Gb/s SAS JBOD enclosure and the VT-100
Terminal Emulation, Please configure the VT100 terminal emulation settings to the values
shown below:
Terminal requirement
Connection Null-modem
cable
Baud Rate
115,200
Data bits
8
Stop 1
Flow Control
None
The controller RJ11 connector pin assignments are defined as below.
Action
Pin Description Pin
Description
1 RTS 3 TXD
2 RXD 4 GND
4.2 Start-up VT100 Screen
By connecting a VT100 compatible terminal, or a PC operating in an equivalent terminal
emulation mode, all CLI administration functions can be exercised from the VT100 terminal.
There are a wide variety of Terminal Emulation packages, but for the most part they should be
very similar. The following setup procedure is an example Setup VT100 Terminal in Windows
XP system using Hyper Terminal use Version 3.0 or higher.
