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SERVSWITCH
™
WIZARD
Appendix:
Cable and Connector Guidelines
IMPORTANT NOTE
The maximum cable lengths supported vary widely
between devices and cables. It might be possible to
use cables that are longer than those specified below
with certain PCs and peripherals, but this cannot be
guaranteed. If you experience problems, try using
shorter cables.
A.1 Cabling: Keyboard, Monitor, and Mouse to ServSwitch Wizard
All of the shared devices plug directly into the relevant
ports at the rear of the ServSwitch Wizard. If you use a
PC/AT style keyboard you will need a PC/AT (5-pin
DIN female) to PS/2 (6-pin mini-DIN male) adapter.
(These are readily available from Black Box as product
code FA211.) When you power the ServSwitch Wizard
with its optional power supply, you can use User
Extension Cables to increase the distance from the
Switch up to 32 ft. (10 m; see
Section 3.3
). You
must
use
an optional power supply with all of the Switches in your
system in order to run this distance; without the optional
power supply, do
not
run cable farther than 6 ft. (2 m) to
the keyboard, monitor, or mouse.