Sas Adapter To Media Expansion Drawer - IBM 8202-E4B Manual

Figure 144. Tri-port SAS adapter to disk expansion drawers
When attaching only hard disk drives, it is also possible to cascade a second disk expansion drawer off of
two out of the three drawers for a maximum of five disk expansion drawers per adapter. See Figure 143
on page 157. Disk expansion drawers can be cascaded only one level deep.
Note: The YO cable must be routed along the right side of the rack frame.

SAS adapter to media expansion drawer

Figure 145 on page 159 illustrates connecting a SAS adapter to a media expansion drawer. It is also
possible to connect a second media expansion drawer to the second port of the SAS adapter.
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