Lenovo x3250 m6 Installation And Service Manual page 184

To connect cables for the server models with eight hot-swap hard disk drives, do the following:
Figure 115. Cables for the 2.5-inch hard-disk-drive backplanes
1. Connect the cable labeled with 0 to the connector 0 on the ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller and the
hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane 1.
2. Connect the cable labeled with 1 to the connector 1 on the ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller and the
hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane 2.
3. Connect one connector on one end of the power cable
system board. Then, connect the two connectors on the other end of the power cable to the power
connectors on the hard-disk-drive backplane 1 and 2.
Figure 116. Hot-swap HDD cable connection: eight HDDs, ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller installed on the left side
Simple-swap HDD cable connection: ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller and redundant
power supply
1
• : Connect to the backplane power connector on the system board and the power connector on the
hard-disk-drive backplate assembly.
• 2 : Connect to the connector 0 on the ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller and the four connectors on the
hard-disk-drive backplate assembly.
Notes:
• The Mini-SAS cable has been installed to the hard-disk-drive backplate assembly by default.
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to the backplane power connector on the