Technical Product Specification

Intel® Server Chassis SC5600 Hot-swap Hard Disk Drive Bays

Revision 1.1

Intel order number E39532-004

The passive backplane acts as a “pass-through” for the SAS/SATA data from the drives to the

SAS/SATA controller on the baseboard or a SAS/SATA controller add-in card. It provides the

physical requirements for the hot-swap capabilities.

The active backplane has a built-in SAS expander controller that requires a SAS controller on

the baseboard or a SAS add-in card for communication. The Active SAS/SATA backplane

reduces the number of required cables by only using two SAS/SATA connectors to drive up to

six hard drives.

When the hot-swap drive bay is installed, a bi-color hard drive LED located on each drive carrier

indicates specific drive failure or activity. For pedestal systems, these LEDs are visible when the

front bezel door is open.

6.1 Intel

Server Chassis SC5600 4HDD and 6HDD Passive SAS/SATA Hot-

swap Back Plane (HSBP) Overview

The Intel

Server Chassis SC5600 4-drive or 6-drive Passive SAS/SATA hot-swap Backplane

(HSBP) is a monolithic printed circuit board (PCB). The architecture is based on the Vitesse

Server Board and storage management controller VSC410* and supports up to four or six

SAS/SATA drives.

The 4HDD and 6HDD SAS/SATA HSBP supports the following feature set:

 Vitesse Server Board and storage management controller VSC410*

 Serial Flash memory

 I

C EEPROM

 Temperature Sensor

 Four I

C interfaces

 One SGPIO Interface

 Compliance with SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosures (SAF-TE) specification,

version 1.00 and addendum

 Compliance with SCSI Enclosure Service (SES) specification.

 Compliance with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 1.5.

 Support for up to four or six SAS1.5/3.0Gbps, SATA I or SATA II Drives

 Hot-swap Drive support

 Two 4-pin Standard HD Power Connectors