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Hardware User Guide - Page 2
...DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH INTEL® PRODUCTS.
Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in medical, life saving, life sustaining applications. ii
Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN INTEL®'S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS, INTEL® ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER...
Hardware User Guide - Page 3
... RES2SV240 in their RAID
system. Preface
This is included on the Resource CD available on the Resource CD. It contains installation instructions and specifications.
Organization
This document includes the following chapters and appendices:
• Chapter 1 provides a general overview of the software drivers, see the Intel® RAID Software User's Guide on Intel support website at www...
Hardware User Guide - Page 5
...
Overview ...1
Benefits of SAS and SATA ...1 Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 2
Protocol Support ...2 Operating System Support 3 Features ...3
Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware Installation 5
Requirements ...5 Installing the RAID Module ...5 Configuring the Expander Card 9 Replacing the Expander Card 9
Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Characteristics 11
Major...
Hardware User Guide - Page 11
... cable. The SAS and SATA protocols support the use of a thin, 7-wire connector instead of SCSI commands eliminates clock skew challenges. SAS controllers leverage a common electrical and physical connection interface that is the future mainstay of migration and implementation. The point-to 24 directly attached SAS or Serial ATA (SATA) devices. The Intel® RAID...
Hardware User Guide - Page 12
... in the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Standard, version 2.0
2
Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide This controller supports 4 inputs and 20 outputs configuration, or 8 inputs and 16 outputs configuration. The card also supports the Serial ATA II (SATA II) protocol defined by the Serial ATA Specification, Version 1.0a and the Serial ATA II: Extension to...
Hardware User Guide - Page 13
.../SAS backplane
• Two 2x12 headers to support Fault LED for your RAID controller or module. Operating System Support
The operating systems supported are determined by the
expander.
• SFF-8485 protocol, using the Serial GPIO (SGPIO) interface provided by your RAID controller or module at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/. See the Tested operating system list for...
Hardware User Guide - Page 18
... 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.
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Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide Make sure the cables are used. AF003495
Figure 3. Note: System throughput problems can...
Hardware User Guide - Page 19
... specification or user guide of the RAID controller connected to this expander card to know how to remove and then install an add-in RAID configurations.
Cabling among the Expander Card, RAID Module/Controller and Drives/Backplane
7. Replacing the Expander Card
To replace the RAID module, see your server system documentation for instructions to configure a RAID system. Intel® RAID...
Hardware User Guide - Page 24
... be used to accommodate expander card firmware. Provides LEDs that can access all four I2C interfaces
• Provides configurable drive spin-up to indicate
activity on a per-phy basis • Provides programmable Tx and Rx signal polarity for SGPIO support.
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Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide
- The sideband signals are configured...
Hardware User Guide - Page 25
... to initiator device such as RAID controller or RAID module. output means the connector is keyed at pin 1. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide
15 The SAS/SATA connector ...drive. AF003496
Figure 7. Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 SAS/SATA Connectors
SAS/SATA Connector Pin-out
Signal names are not compatible with respect to SFF8087 cables for the serial ATA...
Hardware User Guide - Page 26
SFF8087 to SFF8087 Connector Pin-out
Controller(or backplane) Connector PinOut
Expander Connector Pin-Out
Pin No A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10...SAS_A_SB1 GND SAS_A_SB_CTRL_TYP E GND SAS_TX_C_DP SAS_TX_C_DN GND SAS_TX_C_DP SAS_TX_C_DN GND GND SAS_RX_C_DP SAS_RX_C_DN GND SAS_RX_C_DP SAS_RX_C_DN GND SAS_A_SB_BP_TYPE GND
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Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 Hardware User's Guide Table 2.
Hardware User Guide - Page 27
... included and how to supported RAID devices and backplanes, additional cables may be needed depending on it, following cable is needed: SFF8087 to Four-port Internal Cable with this expander card, but below introduction provides detailed pin-out specification, so that users would be able to find such cable from http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ in order to...
Hardware User Guide - Page 29
Controller Connector Pin-Out
Expander Connector Pin-Out
Pin No
Signal
P2_6 P2_7 P3_1 P3_2 P3_3 P3_4
RX+ GND GND TX+ TX+ GND
P3_5 P3_6 P3_7
... A16 A17 A18 B18 B17 B16 B15
Signal GND SAS_TX_C_DP GND GND SAS_RX_C_DP SAS_RX_C_DN GND GND SAS_TX_C_DN SAS_TX_C_DP GND
Figure 9. SATA Connector to SFF8087 Connector Cable
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GND
Backplane Connector Pin-Out
Pin No
Signal
P3_7 P3_6 P3_5 P3_4 P3_2 P3_3 P3_1
GND SAS_TX_C_DP SAS_TX_C_DN GND SAS_RX_C_DP SAS_RX_C_DN GND
Figure 10. Technical Specifications
Specification Processor
Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240
LSI* LSISAS2x24 24-Port Serial Attached SCSI/SATA Expander chip...
Hardware User Guide - Page 32
... controllers (RAID or Non-RAID)
SGPIO
Performance Features
Table 6. No other PCI Express* signals are :
• Relative humidity range: 20% to the Intel® RAID Expander Card RES2SV240 through the standard PCI Express* x4 connector 12 V rails, or a remote RA 4-pin 12V power connector. Specification Operating voltage Interface to host SATA bus speed SAS/SATA ports Firmware...
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