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Cabling the Hot-Swap Hard Disk Drive Cages

Refer to the instructions below should you have to disconnect and reconnect the

backplane and server board/RAID controller card cables.

For a six-drive SAS/SATA hot swap drive cage:

Caution

It is critical that you connect the SAS/SATA data cables cor-

rectly from the SAS/SATA backplane to your server board or

RAID controller card. Failure to do so may result in data loss.

1. Connect the two power cables (A) to the power cable connectors on the SAS/

SATA backplane.

2. Connect a SAS/SATA data cable (B) to each appropriate SAS/SATA

connector on the SAS/SATA backplane. The hard drives in the drive cage are

numbered as follows when viewed from the front.

Figure 165: Cabling the SAS/SATA Hot Swap Drive Cage

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