Hello everyone,
I'm currently in the process of building my own DIY storage server, and I recently purchased a 24-bay server chassis from Alibaba. The chassis came with a simple backplane, consisting of six Mini-SAS HD connectors, each serving four drives. Initially, I connected the backplane to the HBA using Mini-SAS HD to Mini-SAS HD cables, and everything worked perfectly.
However, due to the limited number of Mini-SAS HD connectors available, I wanted to utilize the SlimSAS 8i connectors present on the motherboard to connect the remaining drives. These connectors have the capability to support both SATA and PCIe, and the SATA mode has been enabled in the BIOS. I already tried two types of cables - cbl-sast-0826 and cbl-sast-0832. Both of these cables are supposed to be SlimSAS 8i (host) to 2x Mini-SAS HD (target) cables.
But here's where the problem arises. When I connected the SlimSAS cables, it seemed as if they were shorted, my server was unable to start up properly. Furthermore, the SlimSAS connector itself became excessively hot.
I suspect that I may have purchased the wrong type of cable for this setup. If any of you have any ideas about the correct cable type I should be using, I would greatly appreciate your help.
The motherboard is ASRock ROMED6U-2L2T
Thank you in advance!
I'm currently in the process of building my own DIY storage server, and I recently purchased a 24-bay server chassis from Alibaba. The chassis came with a simple backplane, consisting of six Mini-SAS HD connectors, each serving four drives. Initially, I connected the backplane to the HBA using Mini-SAS HD to Mini-SAS HD cables, and everything worked perfectly.
However, due to the limited number of Mini-SAS HD connectors available, I wanted to utilize the SlimSAS 8i connectors present on the motherboard to connect the remaining drives. These connectors have the capability to support both SATA and PCIe, and the SATA mode has been enabled in the BIOS. I already tried two types of cables - cbl-sast-0826 and cbl-sast-0832. Both of these cables are supposed to be SlimSAS 8i (host) to 2x Mini-SAS HD (target) cables.
But here's where the problem arises. When I connected the SlimSAS cables, it seemed as if they were shorted, my server was unable to start up properly. Furthermore, the SlimSAS connector itself became excessively hot.
I suspect that I may have purchased the wrong type of cable for this setup. If any of you have any ideas about the correct cable type I should be using, I would greatly appreciate your help.
The motherboard is ASRock ROMED6U-2L2T
Thank you in advance!