HP Xw4600 - Workstation - 2 GB RAM Installation Manual page 9

Standard data cable connections
This section applies to SAS hard drives installed in all optical bays and the internal hard drive bays of
HP xw Workstations and HP
1. If connecting a SAS hard drive, ensure that there is a SAS-to-SATA interconnect cable adapter
(supplied with the HP workstation SAS hard drive kit) to the data connector on the SAS hard drive.
Figure 7
2. Select the long 4-port data cable that best fits the workstation. Avoid sharp bends in the data cables.
● To choose a cable, see
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For standard cable connections, hard drives located in the internal bays and hard drives
located in the optical bays may share a long 4-port data cable.
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To connect a hard drive in the fifth internal bay on HP xw8000 and xw9000 Workstations, use
the 4-port data cable with straight connectors.
ENWW
400 Workstations.
Attaching the SAS-SATA adapter
Table 1 Data cable configuration guide on page 5.
Step 3—Configuring the cabling 9