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 293
• “Cable routing with an SFF HBA/RAID adapter” on page 294
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 configuration of 10 front SAS/SATA drives bays.
Connections between connectors:
1 ↔ 1 , 2 ↔ 2 , 3 ↔ 3 , ... n ↔ n .
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