Installing the sas controller daughter card, Cabling the sas backplane boards, Cable requirements – Dell PowerVault DP600 User Manual

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Installing the SAS Controller Daughter Card

The following procedure applies to either a SAS controller or a SAS RAID
controller daughter card.

1 Hold the daughter card by its edges and align the card with the slide rails

on the expansion-bay bracket. See Figure 3-28.

NOTE:

When pushing the SAS controller daughter card into the socket connector,

push only on the card edges and not on the DIMM or any part of the DIMM socket
on the daughter card.

2 Insert the card into the slide rails and slide the card down until the card-

edge connector seats into the dedicated storage socket (INT STORAGE)
on the system board. See Figure 3-14 and Figure 3-28.

3 If present, connect the battery cable to the battery cable connector on the

SAS controller daughter card.

If you need to replace the SAS daughter card battery, see "Replacing the SAS
RAID Controller Daughter Card Battery" on page 126.

Cabling the SAS Backplane Boards

Cable Requirements

The cables needed to connect the SAS storage system depend on your
configuration. Table 3-2 provides a listing of the available configurations for
your SAS storage, the number of cables required, and the number of hard
drives supported in each configuration.

Table 3-2.

Cable Requirements

Configuration

Cables
Required

Hard Drives Supported

SAS controller

1

4 (bays 0 through 3)

SAS RAID controller /no 1x2 flex
bay backplane

2

8 (bays 0 through 7)

SAS RAID controller /1x2 flex bay
backplane

3

10 (bays 0 through 9)

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