Intel Server System R1000BB Family

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Server System R1000BB Product Family TPS
32 Revision 2.0
On the backside of each backplane are several connectors. The following illustration identifies each.
Label
Description
A
Power connector
B
4-port Mini-SAS cable connectors
C
SMBus-In cable connector – From Server board
A – Power Harness Connector – The backplane includes a 2x2 connector supplying power to the backplane.
Power is routed to the backplane via a power cable harness from the server board.
B – Multi-port Mini-SAS Cable Connectors – The backplane includes two multi-port mini-SAS cable connectors,
each providing I/O signals for four SAS/SATA hard drives on the backplane. Cables can be routed from
matching connectors on the server board, add-in SAS/SATA RAID cards, or optionally installed SAS expander
cards.
C – SMBus Cable Connectors – The backplane includes a 1x5 cable connector used as a management
interface to the server board.
5.1.2 Cypress* CY8C22545 Enclosure Management Controller
The backplane supports enclosure management using a Cypress* CY8C22545 Programmable System-on-
Chip (PSoC*) device.
The CY8C22545 drives the hard drive activity/fault LED, hard drive present signal, and
controls hard drive power-up during system power-on.