C-18
SC933 Chassis Manual
Connecting an External Host Bus Adapter to the
Backplane
This backplane supports external Host Bus Adapters. In this configuration, the HBA
and the backplane are in different physical chassis. This allows a JBOD (Just a
Bunch Of Drives) configuration from an existing system.
HBA
Power Card
Single External Host Bus Adapter
HBA
Power Card
HBA
Dual External Host Bus Adapter
CBL-0200L
External HBA Cable
CBL-0200L
External HBA Cables
SEC_J2
SEC_J1
SEC_J0
PRI_J2
PRI_J1
B3
B2
B1
A3
A2
A1
PRI_J2
PRI_J1
PRI_J0
PRI_EEPROM
A3
A2
A1
SEC_J2
SEC_J1
SEC_J0
PRI_J2
PRI_J1
B3
B2
B1
A3
A2
A1
PRI_J2
PRI_J1
PRI_J0
PRI_EEPROM
A3
A2
A1
IMPORTANT:
See Section C-11 of this manual,
Failover with RAID Cards and
Multiple HBAs
for important information on supported configurations.
Figure C-13: Connecting an External HBA