H A R D W A R E I N S T A L L A T I O N
Data Device Corporation
FC-76000 Manual
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Rev A-01/10-0
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3.2.1 Front Panel
All customer I/O is done via the front panel. The front panel contains, starting from
the top:
Power LED (green)
Heartbeat LED (orange)
Serial port, RS-232 levels: 6 pin modular jack
Either 8 or 16 FC ports, which are LC fiber optic connectors
10/100 Ethernet connector: 8 pin modular jack w/ 2 embedded LEDs
Recessed Reset pushbutton switch
3.2.2 Serial Port
The management serial port is a front panel mounted 6-pin modular jack connector.
See Table 3 for the serial port pinouts.
Table 3. Serial Port pinout
Serial port pin
Signal Name
1
-
2
Rx_Data (into switch)
3
GROUND
4
-
5
Tx_Data (out of switch)
6
-
3.2.3 Switch Serial Port to PC Connection
A 6-conductor modular jack cable and modular jack-to-female DB9 adapter is
shipped with each switch. The modular jack cable that ships with the switch is a
crossover cable. The table below shows how the modular jack-to-DB9 adapter must
be wired to allow communication with a standard DB9 serial port on a PC. Note that
only the 3 pins shown should be populated in the adapter.
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