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Need for advice: The goal is to add Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H330 to a Dell Poweredge R230 server.
Originally, the drive data connection is to the motherboard with a mini-SAS connector, the power supply cord is linked to the board itself as well from with a 6pin connector. Since the new RAID controller has a different mini-SAS connector (SFF8644), I cannot use the original cable.
So, trying to resolve this I purchased a cable - Mini SAS SFF 8643 to 4 X SFF-8482 SAS. This would link the RAID controller to the drives. (THIS)
I also added a power cords: 4 Pin IDE Power Supply Molex 1 Male to 3 x Female Splitter & 2x 4 Pin Molex to 6 Pin PCI-E Power Supply Cable Adapter (THIS), (THIS). This was supposed to provide power to the drives - however it does not and they wont turn on.
Any ideas why? Any other ideas of ways to resolve this?
Thanks
IB-EN1
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Posted October 31st, 2016 23:00
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your reply.
A few questions:
1. Initially, I figured out the topology based on the information on the user manual, see attached figure describing "Cabling two 3.5-inch hard drives to the PERC card". Is that not relevant?
2. 457CH, TWV59, 6R7VT: I cannot find any of them on the dell website, can you share links?
3. The above parts are needed in addition to the existing parts (server tag 737DDD2, no backplane) ?
Thank you