AS/400 Twinax cabling

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Sun May 19 21:46:58 2002

On Sun, 19 May 2002, Tothwolf wrote:

> > 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.

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.
Received on Sun May 19 2002 - 21:46:58 BST