Serial Cables And Adapters; Printer/Dumb Terminal Serial Cable; Table B-10 Printer/Dumb Terminal Cable Pinout - Silicon Graphics OCTANE2 Owner's Manual

Serial Cables and Adapters

This section contains cable pinout information for serial cables that you can connect to
your Octane2 workstation. It also describes SGI serial port converters. The following
topics are covered:
•

"Printer/Dumb Terminal Serial Cable"

• "PC Modem Serial Cable"
• "Serial Port Adapter Cables"
Printer/Dumb Terminal Serial Cable
For serial printers and dumb terminals, use a 3-wire standard PC cable. Table B-10 shows
the cable connector pinout assignments for this cable.
For a 3-wire cable and no hardware flow control modem, you must use the
Note:
/dev/ttyd* command devices in the configuration files. For more detailed information, see
the serial man page. To access the man page, choose Toolchest >Help > InfoSearch > Man
pages. Or place the cursor in the console window and type:
man serial
Printer/Dumb Terminal Cable Pinout
Table B-10
Signal Pin Number
Description DB9 Connector (Female)
1
RXD 2
TXD 3
4
GND 5
6
7
8
9
Serial Cables and Adapters
Pin Number
DB-25 Connector (Male)
NOT CONNECTED
2
3
NOT CONNECTED
7
NOT CONNECTED
NOT CONNECTED
NOT CONNECTED
NOT CONNECTED
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