Step 11: Installing Cables



GD4197 68-pin to 50-pin Plate Adapters installed in the backplane
of the MAP5021 Dual-Bay Burly Enclosure.

These plate adapters enable the smaller 68-pin MicroD external SCSI connectors
to interface properly with the connector ports in the enclosure backplane .

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Screwing on the GD4197 68-pin Plate Adapters

1. Remember the screws you set aside when you removed the 50-pin PVC cabling from your new enclosure? Use them now. Line-up the holes in the ends of the plate adapters to the notches on the enclosure backplane and screw the units into place

2. Note that you may have to gently bend your Teflon or Thermal Plastic Olefin cable to make it manageable. We pinch the ribbon cable together where it interfaces with the external cable connector. This makes it easier to hold the external connector in position while you secure it with the screws.

3. Teflon is odd material. Teflon cables are both more durable than PVC and more fragile. You should carefully bend Teflon cables one time only. Do not repeatedly flex Teflon cables along the same stress-point. They have very fine silver wires inside them, which may break if you bend them over and over again at the same spot.

4. Same thing goes for Thermal Plastic Olefin. While it is more pliable than Teflon, you want to avoid repeatedly creasiÁng TPO cables along the same bend spot. Just look at your cables, visualize how they should rest inside the enclosure, and then gently bend them into position. They will stay where you flex them.

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