Enclosure Management Cabling Guide

Enclosure Management Cabling for Pedestal Systems with Hot-Swap Drive Backplanes
6. Connecting Fault LED Control Cables
Only non-expander backplanes (AXX6DRV3G and AXX4DRV3G) require drive LED control cables.
Important: Only one Fault LED control cable – either SES or SGPIO depending on the RAID controller – must be
connected to a backplane. Do not connect both SES and SGPIO cables to the same backplane. This may result in
unexpected behavior including RAID array failures.
The following matrix describes the connectors and cables for connecting Fault LED control cables.
RAID Controller
Expander Backplanes:
AXX6DRV3GEXP or AXX4DRV3GEXP
Non-Expander Backplanes:
AXX6DRV3G or AXX4DRV3G
SATA Embedded RAID (ESB2)
Not supported.
SATA RAID controllers are not
supported with SAS expander
backplanes.
Server board connector: SATA_SGPIO,
black
Backplane connector: SGPIO, black
Cable: 4-pin SGPIO
SAS Embedded RAID
or SAS controller in native mode (LSI*
1064e)
SAS in-band. No drive LED control
cable needed.
Server board connector: SES, yellow on
S5000VSA, white on S5000PSL/XVN
Backplane connector: SES, white
Cable: 3-pin SES
SAS integrated RAID on
S5000PSLROMB (ROMB card)
SAS in-band. No drive LED control
cable needed.
Not supported.
SRCSAS144E
SAS in-band. No drive LED control
cable needed.
Enclosure management not supported with
passive backplanes/midplanes. Do not
connect SES cable.
SRCSAS18E
SAS in-band. No drive LED control
cable needed.
RAID card connector: J18, white
Backplane connector: SES, white
Cable: 3-pin SES
SRCSATAWB, SRCSASRB
SAS in-band.
No Fault LED control cable needed.
Note: Intel® RAID Controllers
SRCSATAWB offers expander
backplane support.
RAID card connector: J6, white
Backplane connector: SES, white
Cable: 3-pin SES
Note: RAID FW 420 or higher is required.
SRCSASJV
SAS in-band.
No Fault LED control cable needed.
RAID card connector: J2, white
Backplane connector: SES, white
Cable: 3-pin SES
Note: RAID FW 312 or higher is required.
SRCSASBB8I, SRCSASLS4I
SAS in-band.
No Fault LED control cable needed.
RAID card connector: J7, white
Backplane connector: SES, white
Cable: 3-pin SES
SRCSASPH16I
SAS in-band. No drive LED control
cable needed.
RAID card connector: J17 (if you use port 0-
7) and J18 (if you use port 8-15), white
Backplane connector: SES, white
Cable: 3-pin SES
SRCS16 (SATA only)
Not supported.
SATA RAID controllers are not
supported with SAS expander
backplanes.
RAID card connector:
4-pin J6, see picture
Backplane connector:
SES, white
Cable: 3-pin SES
Note: RAID firmware ver. 713S or higher
and HSC FW 2.05 or higher are required.
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