AMCC 9000 manual Port 3ware 9500S-12MI Serial ATA RAID Controller

Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller with Multi-lane Internal Connectors

Installing a Serial ATA RAID Controller with Multi-lane Internal Connectors

I2C	LED indicators for	The overall LED drive status
connector	individual drives on	indicator is on the last two
	J7, J8, and J9.	pins of J7.

Serial
	BBU (Battery	LED connector details
number
	Backup Unit)	J7 is for drives 0, 1, 2, 3 (top to bottom)
(on plate)
	connector	J8 is for drives 4, 5, 6, 7 (top to bottom)

SODIMM (memory	J9 is for drives 8, 9, 10, 11 (top to bottom)
	For more details, see page 16.
module)

Ports

8 to 11

Ports 4 to 7

Ports 0 to 3

The last two pins on J8 and J9 are unused.

Figure 5. 12-Port 3ware 9500S-12MI Serial ATA RAID Controller

Models 9500S-12MI and 9500S-8MI, have multi-lane internal connectors, each of which can handle up to four drives. These controllers can be installed in an enclosure with a backplane. The type of cable you need will depend on the type of enclosure you have:

„For use with a backplane that has the InfiniBand 4x connectors (SFF-8470), use the InfiniBand 4x cable, which has multi-lane connectors on each end, as shown in Figure 6.

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