SUPERFAN#4

ON
ENABLEENABLEENABLEENABLEOFF
DISABLEDISABLEDISABLEDISABLE

Rev. 1.0

FAN#1
FAN#2
FAN#3

BPN-SATA-933 BACKPLANE

JP61
JP62
JP63
JP64

USER'S GUIDEREV 3.00

SATA933
RS UPER®

BPN-SATA-933 Backplane User's Guide

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Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Safety Guidelines
1-1

ESD Safety Guidelines ................................................................................... 1-1

1-2

General Safety Guidelines .............................................................................. 1-1

1-3

An Important Note to Users ............................................................................ 1-2

Chapter 2 Jumper Settings and Pin Deﬁnitions
2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers ........................................................................... 2-1
Front Connectors ............................................................................................ 2-12-2

Front Connector and Pin Deﬁnitions ............................................................... 2-3

2-3

Front Jumper Locations and Pin Deﬁnitions ................................................... 2-4
Fan Jumper Settings ....................................................................................... 2-4
Explanation of Jumpers .................................................................................. 2-4
Front LED Indicators ....................................................................................... 2-52-4

Rear Connectors and LED Indicators ............................................................. 2-6iii

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Contacting Supermicro
Headquarters
Address:

Super Micro Computer, Inc.
980 Rock Ave.
San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A.

Tel:+1 (408) 503-8000

Fax:+1 (408) 503-8008

Email:

marketing@supermicro.com (General Information)
support@supermicro.com (Technical Support)

Web Site:www.supermicro.com

EuropeAddress:

Super Micro Computer B.V.
Het Sterrenbeeld 28, 5215 ML's-Hertogenbosch, The NetherlandsTel:+31 (0) 73-6400390

Fax:+31 (0) 73-6416525

Email:

sales@supermicro.nl (General Information)
support@supermicro.nl (Technical Support)
rma@supermicro.nl (Customer Support)

Asia-PaciﬁcAddress:

Super Micro, Taiwan
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Tel:+886-(2) 8226-3990

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Technical Support:
Email:

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Tel:886-2-8228-1366, ext.132 or 139iv

Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations

Chapter 1
Safety Guidelines

To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps
listed below when accessing your system or handling the components.

1-1

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.
1-2

General Safety Guidelines• Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components
from the computer, including the backplane.

• Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cables from thebackplane.

• Make sure that the backplane is securely and properly installed on the motherboard to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.

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1-3

An Important Note to Users• 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 have received may ormay not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual.

1-2

Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations

Chapter 2
Jumper Settings and Pin Deﬁnitions

2-1 Front Connectors and Jumpers

RSATA933

REV 3.00

978

6

JP61
JP62
JP63
JP64

S UPER

FAN#4

FAN#1
FAN#2
FAN#3

ENABLEENABLEENABLEENABLEDISABLEDISABLEDISABLEDISABLE

4333344

Front Connectors1. OH#1: JP25
2. OH#2: JP45
3. Power Connectors (4-pin): JP10, JP13, JP46 and JP48
4. Fan Connectors: JP54, JP56, JP58 and JP60
5. ACT_IN#0-7: JP26 and ACT_IN#8-14: JP47
6. SATA Port #0: J5
7. SATA Port #1: J6
8. SATA Port #2: J7
9. SATA Port #3: J8
10. SATA Port #4: J10

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R13
SATA933

11

REV 3.00
JP61
JP62
JP63
JP64

S UPER

FAN#4

FAN#1
FAN#2
FAN#3

11. SATA Port #5: J12
12. SATA Port #6: J14
13. SATA Port #7: J16
14. SATA Port #8: J22
15. SATA Port #9: J23
16. SATA Port #10: J24
17. SATA Port #11: J25
18. SATA Port #12: J26
19. SATA Port #13: J29
20. SATA Port #14: J30

2-2161412OFFDISABLE
DISABLEDISABLEDISABLE

18

ON

ENABLEENABLEENABLEENABLE

20

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2-2

Front Connector and Pin Deﬁnitions

1. OH Temperature Connector
OH#1: JP25 and OH#2: JP45
Open: 45 degrees Celcius
1-2: 50 degrees Celcius
2-3: 55 degrees Celcius
2. Backplane Main Power Connectors

Backplane
Main Power
4-Pin Connector(JP10, JP13,JP46 and JP48)

The 4-pin connectors designated JP10,JP13, JP46 and JP48 provide power to thebackplane. See the table on the right for pindeﬁnitions.

Pin# Deﬁnition
1+12V

2 and 3Ground4

5. Fan Connectors

Fan Connectors(JP54, JP56, and JP60)

The 3-pin connectors, designated JP61, JP62,JP63 and JP60, provide power to the fans. Seethe table on the right for pin deﬁnitions.

Pin# Deﬁnition

6. Activity LED Connector
The activity LED connectors, designated JP26
and JP47 are used to indicate the activity
status of each SAS drive. The Activity LEDConnector is located on the front panel. For theActivity LED Header to work properly, connect
using a 10-pin LED cable.

7. SATA Ports
The SAS ports are used to connect the SASdrive cables. The 8 ports are designated #0- #14. Each port is also compatible with SATAdrives.

2-3+5V1

Ground2+12V

3Tachometer

SAS Activity LED Header
Pin Deﬁnitions (JP26)
Pin # Deﬁnition

Pin # Deﬁnition

1ACT IN#06

ACT IN#4

2

ACT IN#1

7

ACT IN#53

ACT IN#28ACT IN#64

ACT IN#39

ACT IN#7

5Ground

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Front Jumper Locations and Pin Deﬁnitions

JP18
RSATA933

REV 3.00
JP61
JP62
JP63
JP64

S UPER

FAN#4

FAN#1
FAN#2
FAN#3

DISABLEDISABLEDISABLEDISABLE

JP63

OFF

JP62

ON

ENABLEENABLEENABLEENABLE

JP61

JP64

Socket Settings
Socket
JP18

Socket Setting

Note
Buzzer Reset
Press once to disable buzzer;
Press twice to enable buzzer

Connected to front panel

Fan Jumper Settings
This backplane supports up to four fans. To utilize each fan, you must conﬁgure
both jumpers as instructed below.

Fan Jumper Settings
JumperJumper Settings

Fan Number

JP61

1-2 On: Enable
2-3 Off: Disable

FAN #1JP62

1-2 On: Enable
2-3 Off: Disable

FAN #2JP63

1-2 On: Enable
2-3 Off: Disable

FAN #3JP64

1-2 On: Enable
2-3 Off: Disable

FAN #4

Explanation of Jumpers
To modify the operation of the backplane,
jumpers can be used to choose between
optional settings. Jumpers create shorts
between two pins to change the functionof the connector. Pin 1 is identiﬁed witha square solder pad on the printed circuitboard. Note: On two pin jumpers, "Closed"means the jumper is on and "Open" means
the jumper is off the pins.

2-4321321Connector
Pins

JumperSettingSafety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations

Front LED Indicators

FAN FAIL#1 #2 #3
LEDs

SATA933+5V +12V
LED LEDS UPERREV 3.00

RSATA933

REV 3.00
JP63
JP64

S UPER

R

ALARM
LEDs

FAN#4

FAN#3

ENABLEENABLEDISABLEDISABLERSATA933

REV 3.00
JP61
JP62
JP63
JP64

S UPER

FAN#4

FAN#1
FAN#2
FAN#3
ON

ENABLEENABLE
ENABLEENABLEOFF

DISABLEDISABLEDISABLEDISABLE

Front Panel LEDs
LED

Normal State

Speciﬁcation

Fan #1 FailOff

Failure in Fan #1

Fan #2 FailOff

Failure in Fan #2

Fan #3 FailOff

Failure in Fan #3

Fan #4 FailOff

Failure in Fan #4

Alarm #1

Off

Overheat/Fan Failure

Alarm #2

Off

Overheat/Fan Failure+5VOn

Backplane power failure. Light is on during
normal operation.

+12V

On

Backplane power failure. Light is on during
normal operation.

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Rear Connectors and LED Indicators

SATA#0 SATA#2 SATA#4J3J9J1SATA#6J13SATA#1 SATA#3 SATA#5J11J2J4SATA#8 SATA#10 SATA#12 SATA#14
J19J17J28J21SATA#7J15SATA#9 SATA#11 SATA#13
J18
J20J27

Rear SATA Connectors
RearConnector

SATA Drive
NumberSATA #0

SATA HDD #0

SATA #1

SATA HDD #1SATA #2

SATA HDD #2SATA #3

SATA HDD #3SATA #4

SATA HDD #4

SATA #5

SATA HDD #5

SATA #6

SATA HDD #6

SATA #7

SATA HDD #7SATA #8SATA HDD #8SATA #9

SATA HDD #9SATA #10

SATA HDD #10

SATA #11SATA HDD #11SATA #12

SATA HDD #12

SATA #13

SATA HDD #13

SATA #14

SATA HDD #14

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Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁcations

FAIL #0 FAIL #2 FAIL #4
D12/D5 D14/D7 D18/D19FAIL #1
D13/D6FAIL #6 FAIL #8 FAIL #10 FAIL #12 FAIL #14
D22/D23 D25/D30 D27/D32 D40/D37 D42/D39

FAIL #3 FAIL #5
D15/D8 D21/D20FAIL #7 FAIL #9 SATA#11 SATA#13
D24/D29 D26/D31 D28/D33 D41/D38

Rear LED Indicators
Rear LED

Hard Drive Activity

Failure LED

FAIL #0

D12D5FAIL #1

D13

D6FAIL #2

D14D7FAIL #3

D15

D8FAIL #4

D18

D19FAIL #5

D21

D20FAIL #6

D22

D23FAIL #7

D24

D29

FAIL #8

D25

D30FAIL #9

D26

D31FAIL #10

D27

D32

FAIL #11

D28

D33

FAIL #12

D40

D37

FAIL #13

D41

D38

FAIL #14

D42

D39

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Notes

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