Ii. system components, Hot-swap tray connector board, Hot-swap tray rear connections – Asus AP7500 User Manual

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AP7500 Hardware Reference Guide

II. Components

Hot-Swap Connector

Hot-Swap Tray Connector Board

The connector board is mounted on the hot-swap tray to interface with the
SCSI backplane in the chassis. The connector board combines all the signal
and power into one docking connector for a simple hot-swap unit.

Hot-Swap Tray Rear Connections

KEY: These 2 pins connect to the keylock on the tray’s front panel to turn on
and off the drive’s power.
PLED: These 2 pins connect to the power LED on the tray’s front panel to
show when the connector board receives power.
SCSI_ID: These 8 pins connect to the hard disk drive’s SCSI address pins
to set the SCSI ID number of the hard disk drive.
SLED & ALED: These two wires are connected as illustrated below.

Hot-swap tray connector board parts

Hard Disk Drive
Power Connector

Wide SCSI

Connector

Hot-Swap Tray

Docking Connector

KEY

ALED_IN

(not used)

SCSI_ID

SLED

(not used)

PLED

Hot-swap tray rear connections (Seagate HD)

KEY PLED

SCSI_ID

Power

from hard disk drive’s 2 pin

activity LED (ALED wire)

from tray’s front panel 3 pin
activity LED (SLED wire)

Green
Black
Red

SLED
(wire)

Red
Black

ALED
(wire)

Bridge

Connector Bridge for LED

II. System Components

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