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Front + middle backplanes: three 8 x SAS/SATA + one 4x2.5 SAS/SATA

This section provides cable routing information for configuration (three 8 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA front drive backplanes and one 4x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA middle drive backplane) with one 32i RAID/HBA adapter or two 16i RAID/HBA adapters.

32i RAID/HBA adapter

Connections between connectors: 11, 22, 33, ... nn

Note
The illustration below uses one 32i RAID/HBA adapter as an example, and cable routing for using two 16i RAID/HBA adapters is similar.
Figure 1. Signal cable routing

FromTo
1 BP 1: SAS1
  • 32i adapter: C0

  • Gen 3 16i adapter: C0C1

  • Gen 4 16i adapter: C0

2 BP 2: SAS2
  • 32i adapter: C1

  • Gen 3 16i adapter: C2C3

  • Gen 4 16i adapter: C1

3 BP 3: SAS3
  • 32i adapter: C2

  • Gen 3 16i adapter: C0C1

  • Gen 4 16i adapter: C0

4 Middle backplane: SAS4
  • 32i adapter: C3

  • Gen 3 16i adapter: C2C3

  • Gen 4 16i adapter: C1