So I powered it on and it looks like everything is functional from what I can tell with no drives and nothing plugged in really. I have no idea how the backplanes are wired together as I see like 8 8087 cables connecting to both backplanes and the rear 8088 external ports. I'll just have to assume it is configured right and give it a shot with my 9200-8e. Some additional pics:
Yours is a double expander -EL2 model - only useful for double ported SAS drives otherwise it's a few extra W per backplane of power draw. There are several ways to wire them, but the common way for the double expander is to have one cable to each expander in each backplane to each of the 4 rear ports, since you only get 4 externals. You can ignore the second expander (the one ports to the left as you look at the cable side of the backplane) if you want to dual link for more bandwidth. A common way to cable for the single expander or primary expander only is either dual link to the front backplane and single daisy-chain to the rear backplane, optionally with another external port to the rear backplane for daisy-chaining to other units.
#1 problem is rack ear as pictured by
@briandm81 not just from liq8 but from other sellers too! I don't understand why everyone does not REMOVE (unscrew) them and set them beside the chassis, even the power-switch side can do this easily!
For me as well, in general with many sellers - I ask them to take their time and pack well, but they usually seem to ignore it. It makes me REALLY sad when someone could have just taken a little more care packing and not ruined an expensive item like this.
The handles, especially the left one with the power button and other controls, are very vulnerable - either pack in heavy duty closed cell or self expanding foam at least 3" thick, or remove the handles and use thick styrofoam sheets, or as a last resort extra heavy duty bubble wrap, and lots of it. Peanuts are a joke for heavy items like this - the chassis shifts in the box, punches a hole, and most of the peanuts escape the box and make a mess.
I will say that Ocean-Tech does a stellar job of packing with the self expanding foam stuff, MrRackables does a good job usually with makeshift heavy duty foam and sometimes self expanding foam, and a few others use the self expanding foam to good effect, but I don't remember which ones off the top of my head.
Every time I get a good shipping box, I try to hang on to it in case I need to ship something. At least now that I've 90% settled on a final configuration for the tack, I am getting rid of more than I am acquiring, so hopefully I will be able to get rid of more boxes soon.
(I will be doing a major update to my FS post tonight or tomorrow)