To connect cables for a 7mm drive backplane, refer to “7mm drive backplane” on page 270.
To connect power cables for a backplane for standard 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives, refer to
“Cable routing for
backplane power” on page 274
.
To connect signal cables for a backplane for standard 4 x 3.5-inch front drives, refer to the following cable
routing scenarios depending on your server configuration:
•
“Cable routing for onboard configuration” on page 288
• “Cable routing with an SFF HBA/RAID adapter” on page 289
Cable routing for onboard configuration
The following illustrations and tables show the mapping relationship between backplane connectors and
processor board connectors for onboard configuration.
The following figure illustrates the cable routing for the onboard configuration of 8 x 2.5-inch front SAS/SATA
drive bays. Connections between connectors:
1 ↔ 1 , 2 ↔ 2 , 3 ↔ 3 , ... n ↔ n .
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