Sun Microsystems Interface Adapter - Manual

vii Figures FIGURE 1-1 SunHSI/U Adapter 2 FIGURE 3-1 SunHSI PCI Software Directories and Files 10 FIGURE 3-2 SunHSI Devices Created by the Postinstallation Script 10 FIGURE B-1 Null Modem Cable –Both Sun Systems Supplies Clocking 32 FIGURE B-2 Null Modem Cable –Sun System Supplies Clocking for Both ...

ix Tables TABLE 1-1 Hardware and Software Requirements 3 TABLE 3-1 Required Disk Space 11 TABLE A-1 RS-449 Connector Pin Assignments 23 TABLE A-2 RS-449 Interface Signals 27 TABLE B-1 RS-449 Signals 31 TABLE B-2 X.21 Signals 31 TABLE D-1 Sun VTS Documentation 39

xi Regulatory Compliance Statements Your Sun product is marked to indicate its compliance class: • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — USA • Industry Canada Equipment Standard for Digital Equipment (ICES-003) — Canada • Voluntary Control Council for Interference (VCCI) — Japan • Bureau of Stan...

xii Sun PCI High Speed Quad Por t Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 ICES-003 Class B Notice - Avis NMB-003, Classe B This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada. BSMI Class A Notic...

Regulatory Compliance Statements xiii CCC Class A Notice The following statement is applicable to products shipped to China and marked with “Class A” on the product’s compliancelabel. GOST-R Certification Mark

xv Declaration of Conformity EMC USA—FCC Class A This equipment complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:1. This equipment may not cause harmful interference.2. This equipment must accept any interference that may cause undesired operation. Europea...

xvii Preface This document provides information for users of the Sun™ PCI High Speed QuadPort Serial Interface adapter. Information provided includes adapter installation,software installation and configuration, utilities, cable pin-outs and signals, and nullmodem cable requirements. This document i...

xviii Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 Appendix D gives an overview of the SunVTS™ diagnostic software. Appendix E provides instructions for viewing the man pages. Using UNIX Commands This document might not contain information about basic UNIX ® com...

Preface xix Typographic Conventions Related Documentation The documents listed as online are available at: http://www.sun.com/documentation Typeface 1 1 The settings on your browser might differ from these settings. Meaning Examples AaBbCc123 The names of commands, files,and directories; on-screenco...

xx Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 Documentation, Support, and Training Third-Party Web Sites Sun is not responsible for the availability of third-party web sites mentioned in thisdocument. Sun does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for a...

1 C H A P T E R 1 Product Overview This chapter includes the following topics: ■ “Product Description” on page 1 ■ “Features” on page 2 ■ “Hardware and Software Requirements” on page 3 Product Description The Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface adapter is high-speed serialinterface (HSI) a...

2 Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 FIGURE 1-1 SunHSI/U Adapter The adapter comes with the RS-449 industry standard connectors (for example,DB-37). The protocols that operate with the SunHSI/U adapter include the Solstice X.25 andSolstice Point-to-Poi...

5 C H A P T E R 2 SunHSI/U Adapter Installation This chapter describes how to install the adapter in your system and includes thefollowing topics: ■ “Installation Process” on page 5 ■ “To Install the Adapter” on page 5 ■ “External Cabling” on page 6 Installation Process A simplified version of the i...

6 Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 Note – Refer to your system installation guide or service manual for detailed instructions for the following steps. 1. Power off your system, using the standard shutdown procedures described in the Solaris Handbook ...

9 C H A P T E R 3 SunHSI PCI Software Installation This chapter describes how to install the SunHSI PCI software and includes thefollowing sections: ■ “Installation Overview” on page 9 ■ “Before Installing the Software” on page 11 ■ “Installing the Software” on page 12 ■ “Configuring the Software” o...

Chapter 3 SunHSI PCI Software Installation 11 Before Installing the Software Verifying the Software and HardwareRequirements Before installing the software, answer the following questions: ■ Does your system have any available 3.3V or 5V PCI slots? ■ Have you downloaded the SunHSI software from the ...

12 Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 Before installing the SunHSI PCI software on your system, check your system to seeif previous versions of the SunHSI software are installed. If older SunHSI softwareexists, you must remove this software before inst...

14 Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 5. After the system reboots, verify the installation by typing the following commands: The output shows that the packages are installed, the driver is loaded, and that thesoftware is mapped to the adapter. ▼ To Tes...

17 C H A P T E R 4 SunHSI Utilities The SunHSI software includes the hsip_init , hsip_loop, and hsip_stat utilities. This chapter contains a short description of each utility. Refer to each manpage to get more information on the commands. Also see “Viewing the Man Pages” on page 41 . This chapter in...

18 Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 T1 Compatibility Options The version of the hsip_init utility shipped with the SunHSI software has options that enable you to invert data and clock signals to accommodate the requirements ofT1 or CEPT transmission ...

Chapter 4 SunHSI Utilities 19 HDLC Mode The default operating mode used by the SunHSI software is the HDLC full-duplexprotocol ( mode=fdx ). In this mode the transmitter is always enabled. The transmitter sends flag bytes continuously when it is not sending a data frame. If no message is currently b...

20 Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 If the CTS signal drops before the frame transmission is complete, the frame isdiscarded and the abort error statistic is incremented. If the transmission underruns,an abort sequence is not sent and the frame is si...

23 A P P E N D I X A Cable Pin Assignments & Signals This appendix includes the following information: ■ “Pin Assignments” on page 23 ■ “Interface Signals” on page 27 Pin Assignments A shielded, hydra-style breakout cable providing four 37-pin, D-shell (DB-37) DTEconnectors is available for the ...

Appendix A Cable Pin Assignments & Signals 27 Interface Signals Functional descriptions of the RS-449 interface signals are provided in TABLE A-2 . TABLE A-2 RS-449 Interface Signals RS-449 PinNumber Signal Name Function 1 Shield Ground Enables tandem sections of shielded cable to retaincontinui...

29 A P P E N D I X B Null Modem Cable Requirements A synchronous null modem cable is a specially configured cable that simulatesmodems that are connected back-to-back. When the distance between the two hostsystems is not great, you may be able to use a null modem cable instead of asynchronous modem ...

30 Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 Configuring Internal or ExternalClocking To configure an RS-449 port to provide transmit clocking for itself as well as receiveclocking for the other end of the link, set the txc (transmit clock) and rxc (receive c...

Appendix B Null Modem Cable Requirements 31 RS-449 Null Modem Cable TABLE B-1 and TABLE B-2 list the signals and names for RS-499 and X.21 circuits. TABLE B-1 RS-449 Signals Circuit Name Direction TxD Transmit Data To DCE RxD Receive Data From DCE TxC Transmit Clock To DCE TxCI Transmit Clock In Fro...

35 A P P E N D I X C T1 Inverted Data and Clock Signals This appendix includes the following topics: ■ “Data Signal Inversion” on page 35 ■ “Clock Signal Inversion” on page 37 Data Signal Inversion The requirement for inverting data signals arises from the ones density problem you encounter with mos...

36 Sun PCI High Speed Quad Port Serial Interface Adapter User’s Guide • December 2005 between two computers are another matter, since the corruption of even one data bitcauses a packet to be rejected. Note that in a typical data packet it is quite easy toproduce bit patterns that violate the ones-de...

Appendix C T1 Inver ted Data and Clock Signals 37 By inverting the data signal with HDLC framing on both ends of a link, the HDLCzero insertion algorithm becomes a ones insertion algorithm. This guarantees that inany set of seven bits, at least one bit will be a one. Thus, the HDLC data streammeets ...

41 A P P E N D I X E Viewing the Man Pages The following man pages are included with the SunHSI software: ■ hsip(7d) ■ hsip_init(1m) ■ hsip_loop(1m) ■ hsip_stat(1m) If you cannot view these man pages, you need to add the /opt/SUNWconn/man/ directory to your MANPATH environment variable. Depending on...

45 Index A adapter features, 2installation, 5 alternate mark inversion (AMI), 35 B bipolar 8-zero substitution (B8ZS), 36violation, 36 boot -r command, 13 C cables hydra style connector, 6null modem cable, 29 diagram, 32, 33 passive cabling system, 6RS-232 to RS-449 converter, 7RS-449 pin assignment...