Sata Hardware Overview; Sata Hot Swap Drive Cage Upgrade Kit; Connect Sata Backplane Cables; Front Panel - Intel SC5275-E Technical Product Specification

Appendix A: Chassis Spares and Accessories
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Hot-swapping of SCSI drives, which allows for connection of SCSI devices while the
system is powered on.
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Enclosure management and monitoring functions conforming to the SCSI-Accessed
Fault-Tolerant Enclosures Specification (SAF-TE), Revision 1.00.
6.3

SATA Hardware Overview

One SATA backplane (supporting up to 6 drives) can be mounted in a Server Chassis SC5275-
E if a SATA controller is installed.
6.3.1

SATA Hot Swap Drive Cage Upgrade Kit

The Serial ATA (SATA) drive cage allows for installation of up to six SATA drives in the Server
Chassis SC5275-E. The kit includes a SATA hot-swap drive bay with mounting hardware.
With this kit, the SATA hot swap drive cage can be directly connected to the SATA connectors
on the server board for those server boards that have integrated Serial ATA, or to a Serial ATA
RAID card, such as the Intel
depends on the feature set of the Serial ATA controller.
6.3.2

Connect SATA Backplane Cables

1. Connect the power cables from the power supply to the SATA hot swap backplane.
Regardless of the number of drives that will be installed, both power connectors
should be used.
2. Connect each SATA cable to the SATA hot swap backplane. The connectors and
associated drives are identified as follows.
Drive Bay
Bottom
Second from bottom
Second from top
Top
TBD
TBD
3. The system BIOS may need to be updated for proper operation. See the server board
documentation for information and instructions on upgrading the BIOS.
6.4

Front Panel

The front panel control buttons and LED indicators are displayed in the following figure. Not
shown in the following figure is a tool-activated non-maskable Interrupt (NMI) switch, which is
located below the Status LED. The Server Chassis SC5275-E provides a 34-pin cable option
with the chassis kit. A 34-pin Entry Ebay SSI (rev 3.0) front panel header for Intel® server
boards is located on the back of the front panel. This allows for connection of a 34-pin ribbon
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RAID Controller SRCS14L. The RAID level that is supported

Table 15. SATA Drive Connectors

Drive Number
Drive 0
Drive 1
Drive 2
Drive 3
Drive 4
Drive 5
Intel® Server Chassis SC5275-E TPS
Connection Number and
Drive Number
0
1
2
3
4
5
Revision 1.2