HBA
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Dual External Host Bus Adapter
Appendix D: SAS-846EL Backplane Specifications
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 configura-
tion system to connect to the other system that has a HBA.
Single External Host Bus Adapter
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External HBA Cables
Figure D-14: Dual External Host Bus Adapter
IMPORTANT:
See Section 3-3 of this manual,
Failover with RAID Cards and Multiple
HBAs
for important information on supported configurations.
HBA
Power Card
CBL-0200L
External HBA Cable
Figure D-13: Single External Host Adapter
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