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Figure 3-8. Installing a SAS Controller Daughter Card
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Attach any cables from the internal storage daughter card to the backplane, referring to Figure 3-9 and
Figure 3-10 for the cabling guidelines for your system’s card and backplane configuration.
NOTICE: You must follow the cabling diagrams for connecting the hard drives to either of the internal storage
daughter cards that are illustrated in the following figures to ensure proper connection. Figure 3-9 illustrates the
cable routing for the SAS controller daughter card and Figure 3-10 illustrates the cable routing for the SAS RAID
controller daughter card.
1 SAS controller daughter card
and tray assembly
2 sideplane 3 daughter card socket
4 release latch 5 RAID battery connector (SAS
RAID controller daughter card
only)
6 RAID memory module (DIMM)
(SAS RAID controller daughter
card only)
7 SAS RAID connector 0 (to
backplane SAS A)
8 alignment slots in card tray (2)
2
4
7
1
5
3
6
8