Technical Product Specification

Peripheral and Hard Drive Subsystem Intel® Server System SR2600UR TPS
58 Intel order number E45274-011 Revision 1.8
Figure 33. Optional Tape Drive (Front View)
6.4 Midplane Options
The midplane is the interconnection between the server board and both the hot-swap
backplane and control panel. It is also used to determine which hard drive technology is to be
supported. Two different midplane options are available for this platform: 1) a passive midplane
capable of supporting SATA ports from the server board or SAS using ports from an add-in
card; 2) an active SAS/SATA RAID midplane.
This section describes the hard drive interface support of each of the midplane boards.