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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Note *: Only 1U rack 4 x 3.5’ backplane and Pedestal 4 x 3.5’ backplane have SATA ports. It’s not recommended to use expander between
RAID controller and either backplane.
 Configuration 3: RAID controller, drives, no backplane
 Note: No drive fault LED function is supported in this configuration.
 RAID controller refers to one of below parts:
 Intel® Server Board’s onboard RAID controller
 Intel® RAID controller
 Intel® RAID module
 Drives refer to SAS drives and SATA drives
Step 1*: Choose a proper SAS/SATA cable between RAID controller and drive.
Item
SAS/SATA port type
on RAID controller
Drive type
SAS/SATA cables type
SAS/SATA cable shape
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SATA
SATA
SATA to SATA cable
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Mini-SAS
SATA
Mini-SAS to SATA cable
(G30800-xxx ,no SGPIO)
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SATA
SAS
SATA to SAS cable
(E66563-xxx)