18 May
2002
18 May
'02
6:44 a.m.
I have finally got round to setting up my AS/400 and would appreciate
some advice. It came with one terminal and lots of twinax cable. The
terminal has a piece of twinax attached with a T piece on the end of it.
There are 2 twinax ports on the back of the AS/400.
How do I wire the AS/400 to the terminal? Should I just use 1 port or
does it loop through the T piece and back to the other port? Should
there be some sort of terminator which I don't have?
TIA
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Pete
"Time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana"
19 May
19 May
3:08 p.m.
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M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
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- Ovid
5:21 p.m.
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Peter Joules wrote:
I have finally got round to setting up my AS/400 and
would appreciate
some advice. It came with one terminal and lots of twinax cable.
The terminal has a piece of twinax attached with a T piece on the end
of it. There are 2 twinax ports on the back of the AS/400.
How do I wire the AS/400 to the terminal? Should I just use 1 port or
does it loop through the T piece and back to the other port? Should
there be some sort of terminator which I don't have?
IIRC, you'll need a pair of terminators for a twinax installation.
-Toth
5:46 p.m.
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
Peter, take one piece of your twinax cable. Screw one end directly onto
the first port on the back of your AS/400. Screw the other end into one
side of the 'T' coming out of the back of your terminal. Set your terminal
to be ID 0, and switch on your AS/400. That's it.
Tothwolf: many, if not most, twinax T connectors are self-terminating. No
'T' pieces are used at the host end of things; the distribution box
(built-in, in the case of small AS/400 models like it sounds Peter's is)
takes care of all that.
Peter: if you wait some time and nothing comes up on the display, try it
again with a terminator installed on your 'T'. OTOH if your 'T' is
self-terminating you won't hurt anything but putting a terminator on it.
Good luck.
ok
r.
How do I wire
the AS/400 to the terminal? Should I just use 1 port or
does it loop through the T piece and back to the other port? Should
there be some sort of terminator which I don't have?
IIRC, you'll need a pair of terminators for a twinax installation.
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