12
SERVSWITCH™ AFFINITY
Data Rate:
RS-232: User-selectable:
On serial ports: 9600 or 57,600 bps;
On CPU ports: 50, 110, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, or
9600 bps
Flow Control:
RS-232 on CPU ports: Transparent to software flow
control; doesn’t support hardware flow control
Maximum
Distance:
20 ft. (6.1 m) of CPU or User Cable—possibly as much as
100 ft. (30.5 m) of coaxial CPU or User Cable,
depending on CPUs, monitor, and video resolution
(see
Section 3.2.3
)—from any Affinity Port Card to any
device attached to it except serial devices;
100 ft. (30.5 m) of Expansion Cable between any two
Affinity units or from an Affinity to a Matrix
ServSwitch;
50 ft. (15.2 m) of serial cable from the RS-232 port of any
Affinity Port Card to a computer’s serial port;
100 ft. (30.5 m) of serial cable from the CPU port of any
Affinity Port Card to a device’s serial port
User Controls:
For system: Keyboard commands and on-screen menus;
On Affinity chassis: Rear-mounted ON/OFF rocker
switch(es):
KV130DA, KV138DA, KV139DA: (2);
All other models: (1);
On all Expansion Cards (KV1305C and KV1306C):
Board-mounted BUS/RING jumper;
On 8-User Expansion Cards (KV1306C):
(2) Board-mounted jumpers for user-port numbering
Indicators:
All models: ON/OFF switch(es) are dark when
ServSwitch Affinity is OFF, backlit when Affinity is ON;
KV130DA, KV138DA, KV139DA:
(3) Front-mounted power-supply status LEDs:
(1) for supply 1 (the upper transformer), lit while
supply is outputting power;
(1) for supply 2 (the lower transformer), lit while
supply is outputting power;
(1) for the Affinity chassis (marked “SYSTEM”), lit
while either supply is outputting power unless
internal diodes have failed;
