Enclosure Management Cabling for Intel C200 Series Chipset and Intel C600 Series Chipset Based Server Systems with Hot-Swap Drive Enclosures

October, 2012
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 Configuration 1: RAID controller, backplane, drives
 RAID controller refers to one of below parts:
 Intel® Server Board’s onboard RAID controller
 Intel® RAID controller
 Intel® RAID module
 Backplane is listed in Hot-Swap Backplane Overview in Section 2
 Drives refer to SAS drives and SATA drives
Step 1: Choose a proper SAS/SATA cable between RAID controller and backplane.
Item
SAS/SATA port type
on RAID controller
SAS/SATA port
type on backplane
SAS/SATA cables type
SAS/SATA cable shape
1
SATA
SATA
SATA to SATA cable
2
Mini-SAS
SATA
Mini-SAS to SATA cable
with 5-pin SGPIO (G17758-
xxx in the integrated
system, or
AXXCBL740MS7P)
3
SATA
Mini-SAS
SATA to mini-SAS cable
(G14989-xxx, with 5-pin
SGPIO)
4
Mini-SAS
Mini-SAS
Mini-SAS to mini-SAS cable