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... the expander card. • Chapter 3 provides the characteristics and technical specifications for the Intel®RAID Expander Card RES2SV240. • Appendix A provides safety instructions to manage SAS and SATA disk drives. Audience This document assumes that you have some familiarity with RAID controllers/modules/expanders and related support devices. For details on configuring the storage adapters...
... the expander card. • Chapter 3 provides the characteristics and technical specifications for the Intel®RAID Expander Card RES2SV240. • Appendix A provides safety instructions to manage SAS and SATA disk drives. Audience This document assumes that you have some familiarity with RAID controllers/modules/expanders and related support devices. For details on configuring the storage adapters...
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... Chassis Wall 8 Figure 4. Hardware Block Diagram 12 Figure 7. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 SAS/SATA Connectors 15 Figure 8. SFF8087 to SFF8087 Connector Cable 19 Figure 10. Cabling among the Expander Card, RAID Module/Controller and Drives/Backplane 9 Figure 5. SFF8087 (with SGPIO) Connector Cable 21 Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide vii Changing the bracket 6 Figure...
... Chassis Wall 8 Figure 4. Hardware Block Diagram 12 Figure 7. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 SAS/SATA Connectors 15 Figure 8. SFF8087 to SFF8087 Connector Cable 19 Figure 10. Cabling among the Expander Card, RAID Module/Controller and Drives/Backplane 9 Figure 5. SFF8087 (with SGPIO) Connector Cable 21 Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide vii Changing the bracket 6 Figure...
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... protocol set to 24 directly attached SAS or Serial ATA (SATA) devices. SAS controllers leverage a common electrical and physical connection interface that use simplified cabling, smaller connectors, lower pin counts, and lower power requirements than parallel SCSI. The SAS interface uses the proven SCSI command set . Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide 1 Each expander...
... protocol set to 24 directly attached SAS or Serial ATA (SATA) devices. SAS controllers leverage a common electrical and physical connection interface that use simplified cabling, smaller connectors, lower pin counts, and lower power requirements than parallel SCSI. The SAS interface uses the proven SCSI command set . Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide 1 Each expander...
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... by the Serial ATA Specification, Version 1.0a and the Serial ATA II: Extension to SATA 1.0a. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 The SAS/SATA functionality for this Intel® RAID Expander Card at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. This controller supports 4 inputs and 20 outputs configuration, or 8 inputs and 16 outputs configuration. This expander card...
... by the Serial ATA Specification, Version 1.0a and the Serial ATA II: Extension to SATA 1.0a. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 The SAS/SATA functionality for this Intel® RAID Expander Card at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. This controller supports 4 inputs and 20 outputs configuration, or 8 inputs and 16 outputs configuration. This expander card...
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...pin SGPIO connector to address a single target (in a fail-over configuration) Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide 3 expander SATA/SAS backplane • Two 2x12 headers to support Fault LED for each SAS/SATA port • Power from RA 4-pin power connector or standard PCI ... transparent access to each connected SAS/SATA physical drive • Staggered spin-up • Hot Plug • Native Command Queuing • Allows multiple initiators to be used for your RAID controller or module. See the Tested operating system list for Intel® 6-drive hot-swap ...
...pin SGPIO connector to address a single target (in a fail-over configuration) Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide 3 expander SATA/SAS backplane • Two 2x12 headers to support Fault LED for each SAS/SATA port • Power from RA 4-pin power connector or standard PCI ... transparent access to each connected SAS/SATA physical drive • Staggered spin-up • Hot Plug • Native Command Queuing • Allows multiple initiators to be used for your RAID controller or module. See the Tested operating system list for Intel® 6-drive hot-swap ...
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... recommended Right-angle end or Vertical end of the controller, see Figure 4, which takes 6-drive and 4-drive non-expander backplanes in Intel's pedestal chassis as an expander. ✧ Route SAS cables carefully. ✧ Use only "straight" SAS cables, not "cross-over" SAS cables. 8 Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide The cable length should be reduced...
... recommended Right-angle end or Vertical end of the controller, see Figure 4, which takes 6-drive and 4-drive non-expander backplanes in Intel's pedestal chassis as an expander. ✧ Route SAS cables carefully. ✧ Use only "straight" SAS cables, not "cross-over" SAS cables. 8 Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide The cable length should be reduced...
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... can be used to connect to initiator device such as input or output connector. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide 15 output means the connector is used as RAID controller or RAID module. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 SAS/SATA Connectors SAS/SATA Connector Pin-out Signal names are not compatible with respect to the host reverses...
... can be used to connect to initiator device such as input or output connector. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide 15 output means the connector is used as RAID controller or RAID module. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 SAS/SATA Connectors SAS/SATA Connector Pin-out Signal names are not compatible with respect to the host reverses...
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... ports Firmware Compatible devices Enclosure management Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 +12 V PCI Express* x4 compliant connector only to provide power for multiple initiators Performance Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Upto 6 Gigabit/sec per port, point-to generate the other required voltage rails of mixed capacity • SAS 2.0 host controllers (RAID or Non-RAID) SGPIO Performance Features Table 6.
... ports Firmware Compatible devices Enclosure management Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 +12 V PCI Express* x4 compliant connector only to provide power for multiple initiators Performance Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Upto 6 Gigabit/sec per port, point-to generate the other required voltage rails of mixed capacity • SAS 2.0 host controllers (RAID or Non-RAID) SGPIO Performance Features Table 6.