Intel SC5400LX User Manual

 

The 4HDD and 6HDD SAS/SATA drive cage upgrade kit allows for installation of up to 10 hot 
swap SAS/SATA drives in the server. The kit includes a SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bay with 
mounting hardware.  

With this kit, the SAS/SATA hot swap drive cage can be connected to the SAS/SATA 
connectors on the server board or to a SAS/SATA RAID card, through the mated cable. The 
RAID level that is supported depends on the feature set of the SAS or SATA controller. The kit 
order codes are as follows: 

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AXX4DRV3G 

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AXX6DRV3G 

The Intel® Server Chassis SC5400 4HDD or 6HDD Active SAS/SATA Hot Swap Backplane 
(HSBP) is a monolithic printed circuit board. The architecture is based on the Vitesse VSC7161* 
SAS Expander with enclosure management controller and has support for up to six SAS or 
SATA drives. 

The 4HDD and 6HDD SAS/SATA HSBP supports the following feature set:  

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1.5 Gbps and 3.0 Gbps self-configuring Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Expander with 
embedded v3000 processor (Vitesse* Stanford-I 32-bit RISC CPU) for local control and 
Expander or enclosure management functions 

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Non-volatile SPI Flash  

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I

2

C_based EEPROM  

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Temperature Sensor 

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Two I

2

C interfaces 

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SAS, SATA and SATA-II extension compatible 

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Compliance with SCSI Enclosure Service (SES) specification 

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Compliance with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 1.5 

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Support for up to six SAS 3.0GHz/1.5GHz, SATAII or SATAI Drives 

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Hot Swap Drive support 

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Two 4-pin Standard HD Power Connectors