Back side

The back side of SATA backplane faces the rear panel when installed. This side includes the power connectors, SATA interfaces for the SATA RAID card, and SMBus connectors.

 

 

 

Fan connector (for HDD fan)

Power connectors

 

 

 

 

 

SMBus connector (upper 6-1 pins)

 

 

 

 

 

(connect power plugs

 

 

 

 

(connects the SMB cable from the motherboard)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Power SMBus connector (lower 6-1 pins)

from the power supply)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(connects the SMB cable from the power supply, when available)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CON2

CON4

CON6

CON8

The back side SATA connectors are attached to the motherboard SATA connectors via the supplied SATA cables. Refer to the illustration on the right for the location of the SATA connectors. Refer to the table below for the default SATA cable connections.

Backplane

Connected to

Controlled

ID

(on motherboard)

by

CON2

SATA_RAID1

Promise® 20319

CON4

SATA_RAID2

Promise® 20319

CON6

SATA_RAID3

Promise® 20319

CON8

SATA_RAID4

Promise® 20319

SATARAID controller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATA_RAID4

 

 

 

 

SATA_RAID2

 

 

 

SATA_RAID3

 

 

 

 

SATA_RAID1

 

 

 

 

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