HP Workstations - LSI SAS 3041E Serial Attached SCSI RAID

3. Attach any subsequent hard drives to ports 1–3 on the RAID controller card.
Figure 5 Connecting the blind-mate data cables to the RAID card
4. Continue with Connecting the LED activity indicator on page 7.
Connecting standard data cables
Hard drives installed in HP 400 Workstations, HP xw Workstation series, and all optical drive bays do
not have blind-mate cabling preinstalled on the system board. To connect the RAID cabling for these
configurations:
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) attached to the data connector on the SAS
hard drive.
Figure 6 Attaching the SAS-SATA adapter
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