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 2: RAID controller, expander, backplane, drives
 RAID controller refers to one of below parts:
 Intel® Server Board’s onboard RAID controller
 Intel® RAID controller
 Intel® RAID module
 Expander refers to Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240
 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 expander.
Item
SAS/SATA port type
on RAID controller
SAS/SATA cables type
SAS/SATA cable shape
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SATA
SATA to mini-SAS cable
(G14989-xxx, with 5-pin
SGPIO)
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Mini-SAS
Mini-SAS to mini-SAS cable
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