Hi, apologies for resurrecting this thread but I just bought two of these mobile racks and as one would expect I have a couple of questions. I've fitted only one of them so far in a Supermicro SC731 case. The fan out cable is connected to the SATA ports on the motherboard which happens to be a Supermicro X9SCL-F. The manual is horrible and it is not cool they got the SATA layout and the cabling enumeration wrong. In a sense I was expecting nothing less than seamless integration but so far I am a bit disappointed.
1. I can't seem to be able to figure out how to screw the enclosure to the SC731 chassis. I can live with this if needed be but I am a bit confused, I would assume these things have been standardized decades ago. The box had a couple of screws as well as another bizarre one, like a small wheel, but I don't know what to do with them. Even if I just about manage to screw them in some holes at the upper front of the enclosure, they pop out easily with some pressure.
2. The deal-breaker (almost) and the most important bit. I get no activity LEDs for disks other than disk 0. I can see there is some HDD activity LED pins in the back plane but I don't know what to do with them, the motherboard does not have any corresponding pins. I also happen to have a Dell PERC H200 controller that drives some 3.5 disks, the controller does not have any pins either. It seems that no hardware I've come across has any such pins. Do you reckon the lack of activity LEDs is down to the disks themselves or the enclosure and the wiring to the rest of the system?
3. What does jumper J18 do? Is it the buzzer reset? What does buzzer reset mean? If the buzzer goes off due to temperature or disk failure is this used to reset it to quiet? That would be outrageous. Do they mean "NO BUZZER"? The fan is ludicrously noisy but I put in series a low noise cable I had lying around from a Noctua fan, effectively a resistor, which quietened the fan dramatically. The enclosure however detected this as fan failure. Anything that could be done other than disabling the fan altogether?
Thanks!!