PCIe* OCuLink Port Connections and NVMe* Drives Population Rules when Combined with SAS/SATA Drives
Content Type: Install & Setup | Article ID: 000027901 | Last Reviewed: 08/06/2021
Will using Optical Copper (Cu) Links (OCuLink) in the 0 and 1 ports prevent detecting SAS/SATA drives in ports 2 and 3 of the SAS/NVMe Combo backplane F1U8X25S3PHS?
There are basically two different scenarios that change the rules:
These rules will apply only for Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC). Therefore, without VROC, NVMes can be connected to the server board as stand-alone drives in any enabled OCuLink without disabling any other SAS/SATA ports.
For more information, refer to the following reference examples: