Asus RS700-E7/RS8 - Manual (Page 39)

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2.7 SATAII/SAS backplane cabling
Front side
The front side of the SATIIA/SAS backplane faces the front panel when installed.
This side includes eight SATAII/SAS connectors for the hot swap drive trays.
Connect the SATAII/SAS HDDs
Connects the data cables
connected to the motherboard
Back side
The back side of the SATAII/SAS backplane faces the rear panel when installed.
This side includes the power connectors and SATAII/SAS interfaces for the
motherboard Serial ATA connectors or the SAS card.
Connects a 8-pin
plug from power
supply
SGPIO_SEL jumper:
pins 1-2 (Onboard)
pins 2-3 (Add-on card)