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If you are connecting the SATA hard disk drives to the system board, use the 450 mm (17.72 inches)
mini-SAS signal cable with four SATA ports and one Serial General Purpose Input/Output (SGPIO) port.
Connect the mini-SAS connector
disk drive backplane and connect the four SATA ports
on the system board. Then, connect the SGPIO port
Notes:
1. The number on the label for each of the four SATA signal cables indicates the sequence when you are
connecting the cables to the corresponding SATA connectors (0-3) on the system board.
SATA signal cable label
2. If you connect the SATA hard disk drives to the system board, you can configure RAID using the
configuration utility for the onboard SATA software RAID. See "Configuring the onboard SATA software
RAID" on page 75.
Figure 25. Mini-SAS signal cable with four SATA ports and one SGPIO port
The RAID card provides advanced SATA/SAS RAID configurations. If you are using SAS hot-swap hard disk
drives, you must have the RAID card for connecting the SAS hard disk drives. To connect the hard disk
drives to the installed RAID card, the following cables that come with the RAID card are required:
Note: The option package for the RAID card is designed for different types of servers and might contain
additional cables that are not required to be installed into your server.
• One 700 mm (27.56 inches) mini-SAS to mini-SAS signal cable
• One 2-pin 200 mm (7.87 inches) RAID card to system board hard disk drive LED cable
1
to the mini-SAS signal cable connector on the 3.5-inch hot-swap hard
P0
P1
P2
P3
3 – 6 to the SATA connector 0 to SATA connector 3
2 to the SATA SGPIO connector on the system board.
System board SATA connector
SATA connector 0
SATA connector 1
SATA connector 2
SATA connector 3
.
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