Installation Guide

Make Backplane Cable Connections
WARNING
It is critical that you connect the SAS/SATA data cables correctly from
the SAS/SATA backplane to your server board or RAID Controller card.
Failure to do so may result in data loss.
For a six-drive SAS expander backplane installation:
1. Connect two power cables (letter “A”) to the power cable connectors on the expander
backplane.
2. Connect the SAS data cables (letter “B”) to each appropriate SAS connector on the SAS
Expander backplane. When viewed from the front, the hard drives in the drive cage are
labeled as the figure below indicates.
3. Connect IPMB (letter “C”)
Figure 10. Making Six-drive SAS Hot Swap Drive Cage Backplane Cable Connections
WARNING
SATA Controllers cannot be used with expander backplanes.
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