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Use the following instructions to connect the cables:
1. Use one 700 mm (27.56 inches) mini-SAS to mini-SAS signal cable. Connect the mini-SAS connector
1 to the port 0 on the RAID card. Then, connect the mini-SAS connector 2 to the mini-SAS signal
cable connector on the 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive backplane installed on the lower hard disk
drive cage.
2. Use the other 700 mm (27.56 inches) mini-SAS to mini-SAS signal cable. Connect the mini-SAS
connector
5 to the port 1 on the RAID card. Then, connect the mini-SAS connector 6 to the mini-SAS
signal cable connector on the 3.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drive backplane installed on the upper
hard disk drive cage.
3. Use the 2-pin 200 mm (7.87 inches) RAID card to system board hard disk drive LED cable. Connect the
end 4 to the external connector on the RAID card and the end 3 to the hard disk drive LED connector
on the system board.
Figure 23. Connecting cables for server models with two backplanes and a RAID card
For connector location information about the RAID card, hot-swap hard disk drive backplane, and the
system board, refer to the related topics in “Locations” on page 13.
For information about connecting the appropriate power connector of the power supply to the backplane,
see “Hot-swap hard disk drive backplane” on page 34
.
Server models with up to eight 2.5-inch SAS hot-swap hard disk drives and one backplane
For server models with up to eight 2.5-inch SAS hot-swap hard disk drives and one backplane, a required
RAID card must be installed in the server.
The following cables that come with the RAID card are required:
Note: The option package for the RAID card is designed for different types of servers and might contain
additional cables that are not required to be installed into your server.
• One or two 700 mm (27.56 inches) mini-SAS to mini-SAS signal cables depending on the number of
the hard disk drives installed
• One 2-pin 200 mm (7.87 inches) RAID card to system board hard disk drive LED cable
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