User`s manual

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Appendix D: SAS-846EL Backplane Specications
Connecting an External Host Bus Adapter to the
Backplane
This backplane supports external Host Bus Adapters. In this conguration, the HBA
and the backplane are in different physical chassis. This allows a JBOD congura-
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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PRI_J2
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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 congurations.