Adaptec 5805 Installation And User Manual

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Chapter 5: Installing the Controller and Disk Drives ● 392 Use internal SAS or mini-SAS cables to attach the disk drives to the controller, as shown inthe following example.Note: SAS fan-out cables are also available with an additional sideband (SFF-8448) cablethat caries SGPIO signals for enclosure management. This additional sideband cable is notused with direct-attached disk drives.3 When all internal disk drives have been installed and attached to the controller, close yourcomputer cabinet, reattach the power cord, then continue with Connecting ExternalDevices on page 42.Connecting to a System BackplaneIn a backplane connection, disk drives and SAS cards are attached to and communicate witheach other through a system backplane.The number of disk drives is limited to the number of slots available on the backplane. Somebackplanes have embedded SAS expanders and can support up to 128 end devices. (For moreinformation about backplane and expander connections, see page 71.)1 Connect one or more internal SAS or SATA disk drives to the backplane. (Refer to yoursystem’s documentation for more information.)2 Use an internal SAS cable to connect the controller to the backplane, as shown in theexamples on page 40.SAS/SATAdisk drives orSATA SSDsSingle-port connectorinternal x4 mini-SAS connectorsmini-SAS to SATA fan-out cable