Connecting Ieee 1394 Devices; Connecting Devices To The Serial Port - Matrox 4Sight-II Installation And Hardware Reference

40 Chapter 2: Connecting peripherals to the unit
Important

Connecting IEEE 1394 devices

The IEEE 1394 connectors allow you to connect any IEEE 1394 device in an
IEEE 1394 tree topology. To connect your IEEE 1394 devices, you use a 6-wire
IEEE 1394 cable.
Certain limitations exist when using IEEE 1394 devices under different operating
systems. Please refer to the accompanying software manual for more information
on the capabilities and limitations of the IEEE 1394 interface, when using
Matrox 4Sight-II under a specific operating system.
For further information on the IEEE 1394 specification, consult:
• Anderson, Don. FireWire System Architecture. Reading, Massachusetts:
Mindshare Inc., 1998.
• Henehan, Burke. "1394 Firewire Hardware Design Considerations." Multimedia
Systems Design Mar. 1998.
• http://www.1394ta.org
• http://www.apple.com/firewire/

Connecting devices to the serial port

You can connect to the two serial ports using a 9-pin RS-232 or RS-422/RS-485
serial port cable.
If you do connect RS-422/RS-485 serial devices, remember to configure the serial
port to meet this standard. This is done by changing certain BIOS settings. For
more information on doing so, please refer to BIOS reference.
Note that the RS-422/RS-485 standard cables are different than those meeting
the RS-232 standard. This is because RS-422/RS-485 specifies differential
signaling, and therefore its electrical requirements are different. In addition, the
function of the serial port connector's pins are different when operating under
RS-422/RS-485. For details on the connector pinout of each interface, please refer
to Technical reference.