HP Workstations - LSI SAS 3041E Serial Attached SCSI RAID

Connecting blind-mate data cables
HP 600 Workstations have pre-installed blind-mate cabling plugged into the system board. For
workstations with this cabling configuration, use the following procedure to connect internal hard drives
to the RAID controller card.
NOTE: To connect hard drives located in the optical bays of HP 600 Workstations, see Connecting
standard data cables on page 6.
1. Locate and disconnect the HDD BAY 0 cable from the system board.
NOTE: This procedure assumes that the primary hard drive is located in HDD-BAY-0.
Figure 3 Locating the hard drive cables on the system board
2. Connect the HDD BAY 0 cable to Port 0 on the RAID controller card.
Figure 4 SAS-SATA controller ports
ENWW Step 3—Configuring the cabling 5