Building A Converter For Your Cable; Build A 5X2-To-Db9M Converter (Rx1620) - HP Rx2620-2 - Integrity - 0 MB RAM Manual

x86 Host
Itanium Host
You can install the Debugging Tools for Windows package from the Windows Driver Development
Kit (DDK), Platform Software Development Kit (SDK), or the Customer Support Diagnostics
CD. You can also download the latest release of the package from the Web. The package is
updated frequently. To ensure that you have the most up-to-date tools for the task, obtain the
package from the Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
If you select Custom Install, you can control which features in this package are installed. The
Custom Install options are as follows:
• The Debuggers feature is selected by default. If you leave this selected, installation includes
the debuggers WinDbg, KD, CDB, and NTSD; associated modules, such as DbgHelp; the
symbol server SymSrv; the source server SrcSrv; the dump file tool ADPlus; the remote
debugging tool DbgSrv; and several extension libraries.
• The Tools feature and its Helpful Tools subfeature are selected by default. If you leave these
selected, installation includes the tools SymStore, SymChk, DbgRpc, Logger, LogViewer,
KDbgCtrl, DumpChk, GFlags.exe, TList.exe, Kill.exe, List.exe, Breakin.exe,
and UMDH, as well as the remote debugging tools Remote.exe, DbEngPrx, and KdSrv.
• The Documentation feature and its Debugging Tools subfeature are selected by default. If
you leave these selected, installation includes the Debugging Tools for Windows
documentation (debugger.chm).
• The SDK feature and its subfeatures are not selected by default. If you select these features,
installation includes the headers and libraries necessary to build debugger extensions, several
sample extensions and other samples, the "Debug Help Library" documentation
(dbghelp.chm), and the source server documentation (srcsrv.doc).
After the installation completes, and after you complete the other required tasks, such as preparing
your cable and setting up the target machine, you can launch the Windows Debugger (WinDbg)
by selecting Start > All Programs > Debugging Tools for Windows > WinDbg.

Building a converter for your cable

Some HP Integrity servers do not have a DB9 serial port. To connect the host to these servers,
you must build or buy a converter plug to use to connect a cable to the debug port on the server.
The following sections provide pin-out details for the debug ports on each server, so you can
make the converter you need.

Build a 5x2-to-DB9M converter (rx1620)

On the rx1620 system board, the kernel debug port 5x2 male pins are wired as follows:
If the host uses an x86 processor, always use the 32-bit package.
If, like the target, the host is Itanium-based — an entry-level HP Integrity
server being used as a development platform, for example — then the
following rules apply:
• To analyze a dump file, use either the 32-bit package or the Itanium
package. It does not matter whether the dump file is a user-mode dump
file or a kernel-mode dump file.
• To perform live kernel-mode debugging, use either the 32-bit package
or the Itanium package. It does not matter whether the target is an
Itanium-based machine.
• To perform live user-mode debugging, always use the Itanium package.
It does not matter whether the target is a 64-bit application or a 32-bit
application.
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