"Bob_Villa" wrote in message
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On Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:50:51 AM UTC-6, W wrote:
The Dell T7600 has four hotswap 3.5" bays, and what appear to be four

hotswap 2.5" bays. My Dell 710P controller appears to have one of its
two

minisas ports wired to the four 3.5" drives. How do we wire up the
2.5"

drives to the other port on the 710P? I don't see a way to take off
the

other side of the case where the back side of the drives would be
exposed.

And - what is truly incredible - the Dell T7600 "operating manual"
doesn't

appear to even have diagrams showing how to recable the drives.



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W

Is this what you have?
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-produ...uide_en-us.pdf

Yours is a more recent edition than mine, so thanks in any case.

I have the cover off on the side with the hard drives, but that makes it
clear I am on my own here. The 2.5 drives have NOTHING to support them on
the back. I don't even have the power available.

Has anyone been through trying to wire up the four 2.5 drives *in addition
to* the 3.5 drives, and if yes what are the things I need here?

It looks like I will need to buy another hotswap power supply, simply to get
some additional connectors available to provide power to the 2.5 drives?

For cabling the data, I assume I will go min-SAS connector on the PERC H710P
adapter, and this will wind to the bottom of the motherboard, to the drive
side of the computer and then branch out to four SAS-style data+power
connectors (if connecting to 2.5 SAS drives). Power will then plug into
each of those four combo SAS connectors.

Am I missing something?

It seems strange they would not pre-wire the computer for using both 2.5 and
3.5 drives.

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W