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Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080
Controller LED and connector information

The following figure shows the jumpers and connectors on Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080. A description for each jumper and connector is provided in the table that follows the figure.


Jumper

Description

Type

Comments

JT1

Dirty Cache LED Header

2-pin connector

For connection to enclosure LED. When lit, indicates the data in the cache has not been written to disk.

JT2

Drive Activity LED Header

2-pin connector

LED signal for drive activity

JT3

Board-to-board Connector for Battery Backup Unit

20-pin connector

Provides an interface to the daughter card that contains the battery backup unit.

JT4

Drive Fault LED Header

2-pin connector

LED signal for any drive fault.

JT6

Internal SAS/SATA Port Connector, Ports 0-3

SFF8087

Connection to SAS/SATA devices.

JT7

Internal SAS/SATA Port Connector, Ports 4-7

SFF8087

Connection to SAS/SATA devices.

JT8

Debug Connector

2-pin connector

Reserved

JT9

Set Factory Defaults Connector

2-pin connector

Resets the board settings to the defaults set in the factory.

JT10

Debug Connector

2-pin connector

Reserved

JT11

Keyed I

2C Connector

3-pin keyed connector

Out-of-band enclosure management (SES2)

JT12

Individual Drive Fault LED header

8 x 2 header

Indicates drive faults. There is one LED per port. When lit, each LED indicates the corresponding drive has failed or is in the Unconfigured-Bad state.

The LEDs function in a direct-attach configuration (there are no SAS expanders). Direct attach is defined as a maximum of one driveconnected directly to each port.

Note: This header is used for RAID controllers with internal SAS ports only.

JT13

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART)

4-pin connector

For factory and debug use.

The Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080 contains the following LEDs:

  • One surface-mounted heartbeat (“CRT1”) LED (Green Color) to indicate SAS2108 activity
  • Another surface-mounted system error (“CRT2”) LED (Red Color) to indicate a board error
  • Additional LED signaling is available through stake pin connectors (JT connectors noted above) on the controller

This applies to:
Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL080

Solution ID: CS-030629
Date Created: 09-Jul-2009
Last Modified: 17-Dec-2010
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