SAS810TQ Backplane
USER'S GUIDE
Rev. 1.0

SAS810TQ Backplane User’s Guide

Table of Contents
Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations .................................. 1-3
1. Safety Guidelines ...................................................................................... 1-3
2. Introduction to the SAS810TQ Backplane ............................................. 1-4
3. Jumper Settings and Pin Deﬁnitions ..................................................... 1-5
A. Front Connectors and Jumpers ............................................................ 1-5
A-1. Front Jumper/Connector Locations ................................................. 1-5
A-2. Front Jumper/Connector Descriptions............................................. 1-5
A-3. Front Jumper/Connector Pin Deﬁnitions ......................................... 1-5
A-4. Front Overheat/Drive Failure LED .................................................. 1-6
A-5. Front Jumper Settings and Pin Deﬁnitions ..................................... 1-6
B. Rear Connectors and LED Indicators ................................................. 1-7
B-1. Rear Connector/LED Indicator Locations........................................ 1-7
B-2. Rear Connector/LED Indicator Descriptions ................................... 1-7

User's Guide Revision: Rev. 1.0
Release Date: 01/16/20061-2

Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations

Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations
1. Safety Guidelines
To avoid personal injury and property damage, please carefully
follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing your systemor handling the components:

ESD Safety Guidelines
Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic components. To prevent damage to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures
are generally sufﬁcient to protect your equipment from ESD.
• Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.
• Touch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the antistaticbag.
• Handle the RAID card by its edges only; do not touch its components, peripheral
chips, memory modules or gold contacts.
• When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.
• Put the card and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use.

General Safety Guidelines• Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components
from the computer, including the SAS810TQ Backplane.
• Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cable from theSAS810TQ Backplane.
• Make sure that the SAS810TQ Backplane is securely and properly installed on
the motherboard to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.

An Important Note to the User
• All images and layouts shown in this user's guide are based upon the latest
PCB Revision available at the time of publishing. The card you've received
may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual.

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2. Introduction to the SAS810TQ Backplane
A. Overview
The SAS810TQ Backplane is a highly efﬁcient, highly compatible and easy to use
SES-2 backplane that offers the most advanced functionality provided by the Serial Attached/Serial Link Industry in a slim package. With the built-in AMI MG 9071
chip, the SAS810TQ Backplane allows the user to conﬁgure RAID 0 and RAID 1,
maximizing data storage capability and data transferring reliability. Additionally, theSAS810TQ supports SATA up to 3Gbps and SAS up to 3Gbps with *SES-2 (SCSIEnclosure Services-2) capabilities, providing complete Serial Attached Services andSerial Link Solutions to the market. (*Refer to the section below.)

B. Backplane Features
The SAS810TQ Backplane supports the following features when it is installed on amotherboard that has an onboard SAS controller:
1.

Backward compatible with SATA drives

2.

Supporting SAS drives with a transfer rate of 3Gbps

3.

Supporting I2C Interface to communicate with SAS/SATA Host Bus Adaptors
(HBA)

4.

Minimizing the need for cables and connectors, uncluttering server space, andproviding a trouble-free installation environment for the user

5.

Supporting SES-2 (SCSI Enclosure Services-2) protocol, providing the followingfeatures:•Drive activity and drive failure indication for each drive slot

•Overheat/drive failure alarm via a buzzer installed on the backplane•

An overheat/drive failure LED Indicator built in•

Temperature Monitoring via a 2 wire (I2C) temperature sensor in theMG 9071 chip

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3. Jumper Settings and Pin Deﬁnitions
A. Front Connectors and Jumpers

A-1 Front Jumper/Connector Locations

862

34 5JP1813TMJP294TM

73TM

9Front View

A-2. Front Connector and Jumper Descriptions#1. JP10: Backplane Main PWR#2. JP40: I2C Reset (Jumper)#3. JP50: I2C Reset (Jumper)#4. JP33: I2C Controller ID (Jumper)#5. JP34: I2C Backplane ID (Jumper)#6. D3: Overheat/Drive Fail LED#7. JP29: MG9071 Reset, if short (Jumper)#8. JP18: Buzzer Reset, if short (Jumper)#9. SAS#1 (J6)
#10.SAS#0 (J5)#11. JP26: Activity LED Header#12. JP44: I2C Connector#13: JP51: Sideband#14.JP42: I2C Backplane ID (Jumper)

A-3. Front Connector Pin Deﬁnitions
1. Backplane Main Power Connector (JP10) Pin Deﬁnitions
You must use the 4-pin power
Backplane Main
PWRconnector: JP10 (marked "1" on4-pin Connectorthe layout above) to provide ad(J10)JP10equate power to the Backplane.
Pins # Definition+12 V
1
See the table on the right for pin
2 & 3 Grounddeﬁnitions.
+5V4
2. SAS Connectors: SAS#0 (J5), SAS#1 (J6)
3. I2C Connector: JP44 (#17)

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1TM14
11

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4. Activity LED Header: JP26 (#16)
The Activity LED Header, located atJP26 on the front panel, transmits
signals to indicate the activity statusof each SAS slot. For the Activity
LED Header to work properly, pleaseconnect an LED cable to JP26 asshown on the right. See the table inSection A-5 for pin deﬁnitions.

JP26
SAS Activity LED
Pin# Pin#Act In#0

1

6

Act In#1

2

7

NC

NC

38NC

NC

49NC

5NC

NC

Empty

(*Note 1: "NC"=No Connection,Note 2: Connect a 4-pin LED cable toPin1-Pin 4 of JP26 only.)

5. Sideband Header: JP51 (#13)
The Sideband Header is located atBackplane
SB5 2 1 SB6 Controller ID
Addressing
JP51 on the front panel. For SES-2
Reset SB4 4 3 SB2 GND
to work properly, please connect an
GND SB3 65 SB1 SDA
8-pin Sideband cable to JP51 asshown on the right. See the table Backplane ID SB7 8 7 SB0 SCLfor pin deﬁnitions.
No Connection 10 9 No Connection
Sideband Pin Definitions (JP51)

A-4 Front Overheat/Drive Failure LED Indicator: D3 (#6)

Front LED

StateSpecification

D3 (Front)

OnOverheat or Drive Failure

A-5 Front Panel Jumper Settings and Pin Deﬁnitions

JumperDescription

Definition

JP18Open (*Default)
Short
Open (*Default)
12Open (*Default)
Short
1-22-3 (*Default)
1-2 (*Default)
2-3
Short
Open (*Default)
1-22-3 (*Default)
Open
Short (*Default)

NormalBuzzer Reset
Act #0-1 In
Act In #0
Act In #1
Normal
MG9071 Reset2
I C Controller ID: SGPIO22
I C Controller ID: I C
2
I C Backplane ID: ID#02
I C Backplane ID: ID#1
I2C Reset: SGPIO
2
2
I C Reset: I C
2
I C Backplane ID: SGPIO
22
I C Backplane ID: I C
2I C Reset: SGPIO
22I C Reset: I C (On)

JP26

JP29
JP33
JP34

JP40
JP42
JP50

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B. Rear Connectors and LED Indicators
B-1 Rear Connector/LED Indicator Locations
Rear View

J1SAS#0
D5J2

D12SAS#1
D6(*See below for rear connector/LED descriptions.)
B-2 Rear Connector/LED Indicator Descriptions
Rear Connectors

RearConnector

Specification

J1 (Rear)
J2 (Rear)SAS#0 HDD (connected to HDD)
SAS#1 HDD (connected to HDD)

Rear LED Indicators

Rear LEDIndicators

Specification

D12 (Rear)
D13 (Rear)
D5 (Rear)
D6 (Rear)SAS#0 Activity LED
SAS#1 Activity LED
SAS#0 Fail LED
SAS#1 Fail LED

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Notes

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