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ReaderMan2012-06-15 21:20:48
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ReaderMan, 2012-06-15 21:20:48

Question for experts in server engineering: how to connect disks to the controller?

Good afternoon dear!
It was required to put the RAID controller in the server.
Platform: Intel® Server System SR2600URLXR
Controller: Intel® Integrated Server RAID Module AXXRMS2MH080 It says here
that these two pieces of hardware are compatible, but I can't figure out how to connect the HDD to the controller.

Here on the 19th page you can see that the hard drives are connected by cables, but there is a backplane in the platform and the hard drives in the baskets are plugged into it with connectors.
Now the question is: how to put this controller in this platform and connect 4xHDD? Maybe there is some kind of special adapter? Who knows, please tell me. Google didn't help this time.

PS: At first, I accidentally sent this question to the topics, I'm sorry))

I was already advised there that:
Of course, I'm not aware of this system. But looking at the PDF documents you provided, I saw:

in the Intel® Integrated Server RAID Module AXXRMS2MH080 2 - page:
item 3 - Connectors for the SFFF08087 SAS / SATA cable
item 8 - Two SFFF08087 SAS/SATA cables are included but not shown

Here in this file
On page 9 - Picture 3 shows how each of these cables is connected to 4 Drives
A from page 15 to 17 - the datasheet of this cable is described

I hope this will help you


And more here it is:
Are you kidding? Google did not help you write sff8087 to 4 sata in it? Or immediately in Yandex? Or immediately in Yandex.market??? The name of the connector is written in the raid specification.

I know this cable. Once again, when you put the disks in the baskets, plug them into the server, they (the disks) get into the backplane with their connectors, that is, the connectors are already occupied, there is nowhere to plug the cables.

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artamonovg, 2012-06-15
@artamonovg

The backplane is connected to the motherboard using a special adapter board, which makes it IMPOSSIBLE to use RAID controllers other than the built-in one.

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artamonovg, 2012-06-15
@artamonovg

The controller is compatible with the same platform without backplane: Intel 2U
SR2600URBRPR

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mastini, 2012-06-15
@mastini

What is the problem with connecting the backplane to the controller?

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SadGnome, 2012-06-16
@SadGnome

The PDF clearly says:
Connect the SAS/SATA cables from the backplane (or hard drives) to the RAID module (see Figure 3).
Connect to the backplane, discs are connected to it and are picked up when inserted into baskets. I connected a similar controller to the SR2600URBRPR, there were no problems.

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