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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Controller Connector Pin-out
Backplane Connector Pin-out
Port
SFF-8087 Pin #
Pin Definition
Pin #
Pin Definition
A18
GND
4
GND
B16
TX3+
2
RX-
B17
TX3-
3
RX+
B18
GND
1
GND
When SAS/SATA devices are directly connected to RAID controllers without backplanes, the RAID enclosure management feature is not
supported. Thus, those miniSAS-to-miniSAS and miniSAS-to-SATA cables either with or without 8pin SGPIO signals inside are OK to be
used.
24pin MiniSAS (SFF8087) Internal Connector (without SGPIO Connector) Pin-out
Controller Pinout
Backplane Pinout
Port
SFF8087
Pin Definition
SATA Connector
Pin Definition
A1
GND
7
GND
Port 0
A2
RX0+
6
TX+
A3
RX0-
5
TX-
B1
GND
4
GND
B2
TX0+
3
RX-
B3
TX0-
2
RX+
B4
GND
1
GND
A4
GND
7
GND
Port 1
A5
RX1+
6
TX+
A6
RX1-
5
TX-
A7
GND
4
GND
B5
TX1+
3
RX-
B6
TX1-
2
RX+
B7
GND
1
GND
B8
Sideband 0
B9
Sideband 1
B10
Sideband 2
A9
Sideband 3
A10
Sideband 4
A11
Sideband 5
A8
Sideband 6
B11
Sideband 7