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Broadcom SAS 9305-24i PCI Express to 12Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter User Guide
January 27, 2016
3.3

LED Management

The Broadcom 12Gb/s SAS HBA offers LED management support for your backplane implementation. This
configuration option lets you use the Broadcom 12Gb/s SAS HBA with backplanes configured for the SGPIO interface.
The Broadcom 12Gb/s SAS HBA complies with SFF-8485: Specification for Serial GPIO (SGPIO) Bus, Revision 0.7.
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Operating System Support

The Broadcom 12Gb/s SAS HBA supports all major operating systems: Windows
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support. Contact Oracle support for Oracle driver or software support.
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Broadcom SAS 9305-24i HBA Characteristics

5.1

Memory

The 12Gb/s SAS HBA provides one a128Mb Flash ROM to store the firmware and the BIOS.
5.2

LEDs

The Broadcom 12Gb/s SAS HBA has a Heartbeat LED (LT14) that blinks green to indicate that the HBA is capable of
general activity, and a thermal event LED (LT10) that illuminates if the IOC experiences an over-temperature condition.
5.3

Connectors

UART Connectors (JT1). The UART connector debug port requires a special cable and Broadcom support to gather
detailed IOC status. The UART connector uses the following layout.
Table 1 Broadcom SAS 9305-24i HBA UART Pinout, JT1 UART
Pin
1 UART0_TX
2 Gnd
3 UART0_RX
4 1.8 V
SATA+SAS Connector (JT4). The 12Gb/s SAS HBA supports SATA and SAS devices through SFF-8643 mini-SAS HD
internal connectors.
SATA+SAS Connector (JT5). The 12Gb/s SAS HBA supports SATA and SAS devices through SFF-8643 mini-SAS HD
internal connectors.
SBR Recovery (JT8). This port enables recovery of corrupted SBR files. Broadcom support can assist with this process.
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