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Appendix D: SAS-846EL Backplane Specications
Connecting an External Host Bus Adapter to the
Backplane
This backplane supports external Host Bus Adapters. In this conguration, the HBA
and the backplane are in different physical chassis. This allows a JBOD congura-
tion system to connect to the other system that has a HBA.
HBA
Power Card
HBA
Dual External Host Bus Adapter
CBL-0200L
External HBA Cables
HBA
Power Card
CBL-0200L
External HBA Cable
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Figure D-13: Single External Host Adapter
Figure D-14: Dual External Host Bus Adapter
Single External Host Bus Adapter
IMPORTANT: See Section 3-3 of this manual, Failover with RAID Cards and Multiple
HBAs for important information on supported congurations.