Technical Product Specification

Peripheral and Hard Drive Support Intel® Server Chassis SC5650 TPS

Revision 1.2

Intel order number E39531-004

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 One Vitesse* SFF8485 (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 hard drive power connectors

The following figure shows the functional blocks of the passive 6HDD SAS/SATA HSBP.

Figure 28. 6HDD Passive SAS/SATA HSBP Block Diagram

4.3.3 Server Board and Storage Management Controller VSC410*

The Vitesse* VSC410 baseboard and storage management controller for the SAS/SATA

backplane monitors various aspects of the storage enclosure. The chip provides out-of-band

SAF-TE, SES management through the SAS/SATA Host I

C interface and HDD fault LED status

management through the SGPIO interface. The VSC410* also supports the IPMI specification

by providing management data to a server board management controller through the IPMB.