Figure 3. Sas And Sata Plugs And Sas Backplane Connector; Connecting The Cables - Intel SRCSASPH16I - RAID Controller Hardware Manual

10. Watch the boot process until you see a BIOS message to inform you of the key
combination to press to enter the RAID BIOS Console. It will look similar to the
following message:
This message will time out after several seconds and pass the option to get into the BIOS
Console.
The firmware takes several seconds to initialize and will then display the RAID Controller
SRCSASPH16I number and firmware version. The numbering of the controllers follows
the PCI slot scanning order used by the server board.

Connecting the Cables

This section describes the cables used on the SAS controller and provides instructions for
connecting SAS and SATA hard disk drives to the SAS RAID controller.
Note: Use only "straight" SAS cables, not "cross-over" SAS cables.
A SATA connector consists of a signal connector and a power connector. The SAS
connector adds a bridge (primary physical link) between the signal connector and the
power connector. This means SAS backplane connectors can accept either drive type, but
SATA backplane connectors can ONLY accept SATA drives.
connectors.
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Press <CTRL><G> to run BIOS Console 2.
SAS Primary
Physical Link
Power
SAS Primary
Physical Link
Power
SATA
Physical Link

Figure 3. SAS and SATA Plugs and SAS Backplane Connector

Serial Att ached SCSI
SAS Backplane
Recept acle Connector
Power
Serial A TA
SAS Secondary
Physical Link
Note: SA TA backplane connectors
will NOT accept SAS drives
Figure 3 shows these
SATA/SAS
Primary
Physical Link
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