Model : IW-RS108-07 Slim 4Bay Hybrid Backplane User Manual
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IW-RS108-07 SLIM HYBRID BACKPLANE
USER MANUAL
P/N : 2RAKVI009000
Model
：
IW-RS108-07 SLIM 4BAY HYBRID Backplane-H
MODULE
Version : V1.0
Page 1: ...Model IW RS108 07 Slim 4Bay Hybrid Backplane User Manual PAGE 1 OF 12 IW RS108 07 SLIM HYBRID BACKPLANE USER MANUAL P N 2RAKVI009000 Model IW RS108 07 SLIM 4BAY HYBRID Backplane H MODULE Version V1 0 ...
Page 2: ...Model IW RS108 07 Slim 4Bay Hybrid Backplane User Manual PAGE 2 OF 12 Revision History Version Changes Date V1 0 Official Release 2021 05 25 ...
Page 3: ...E 3 OF 12 TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview 4 Physical Outlook 4 Mechanical 5 Connector Locations and LED Indicators 6 Connector LED Indicators 6 Connector Pin Definitions 7 Hardware Specification 8 LED Behavior 9 Disk Bay LED 9 System Alarm LED 10 Firmware Upgrade 11 ...
Page 4: ...t The passive backplanes support state of the art SAS3 12Gbps HDD SSD and also backward compatible with SAS 6Gbps SATA 6Gps and SATA 3Gps HDD SSD The backplane supports NVMe SSD through OcuLink x4 connectors Basically one single SFF 8621 SFF 8643 MiniSAS HD connector substitute connector can support up to 4 disk bays 2 of them are so called Hybrid that further support NVMe SSD via Oculink x4 conne...
Page 5: ...Model IW RS108 07 Slim 4Bay Hybrid Backplane User Manual PAGE 5 OF 12 Mechanical ...
Page 6: ...ME1 MVME4 4 Main Power Connector PW1 2 Host facing interface SAS3 CN1 5 M S Communication Connector JM1 3 Firmware Programming Header JD1 6 M058 Micro controller IC1 Location SAS U 2 Drive Number DISK1 DISK2 SATA SAS Disk or NVMe SSD 1 2 DISK3 DISK4 SATA SAS Disk or NVMe SSD 3 4 Location Hard Drive Power Activity Failure Locate LEDs D1 D2 D3 D4 DISK1 DISK4 Power Activity Failure Locate LED ...
Page 7: ...r Pin Definitions NVME1 NVME4 CN1 PW1 Power 5 Pin Connector PIN Definition 1 5V 2 3 Ground 4 5 12V JD1 Firmware Programming Connector PIN Definition PIN No Definition 2 ICE_CLK 1 VCC 4 ICE_DATA 3 Key 6 ICE_RST 5 Ground JB1 Power 4 Pin Connector PIN Definition 1 NC 2 LINK_SIG 3 NC ...
Page 8: ...y Red When HDD Failure Locate LED Blinking Red When HDD Locate Environment Control Temperature Sensor RTB1 RTB2 Monitor HDD bay inside temperature M S Link Connector JM1 for Synchronous signal connection between two backplane DB2 RED LED for Over temperature and FAN fail indicator Connector SFF 8621 OCULINK 42PIN Connector 1 CN1 for SAS_12G HOST Interface SFF 8621 OCULINK 42PIN Connector 4 NVME1 N...
Page 9: ...y on when disk failure occurs Blinking 1 Hz when locating Disk RAID rebuild and RAID consistent check There are 2 parts of LED Management on the backplane One is for SAS and another is for NVMe Please note that the disk slots can only accommodate SAS SATA or NVMe disk at a time since they share the same disk connector For SAS application The LEDs behave by following SGPIO signal coming through sid...
Page 10: ... signal from P11 Activity of the disk connectors Examples of NVMe connections to Broadcom RAID HBA controller Each pair of VPP over I2C signal supports 2 pieces of NVMe disks LED management The I2C bus is leaded to odd number NVMe connector Oculink or SlimSAS to manage its corresponding and the following NVMe disks For example NVMe1 and NVMe2 LED management signal is form NVMe1 connector s sideban...
Page 11: ...oing under 45 C Firmware Upgrade The passive backplanes are planted Nuvoton M058 series MCUs for hosting disk LED indication Fan speed control and system fail alarm These MCUs are preprogrammed in manufacturing In most cases the MCUs are not required to reprogram unless there is issue needed to fix How to upgrade firmware 1 Require Nuvoton ARM Cortex M0 programming tool Nu Me or Nu Link and instal...
Page 12: ... a host and the SWD end to Backplane ICE connector for each MCU 3 Make sure device is connected and select the binary file being programmed and then click on Start button to program firmware 4 Please refer to http www nuvoton com resource files NuLink_Adapter_User_Manual_EN_V1 01 pdf for more details ...
