LSI SAS to sata Cable Question

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I bought a new LSI MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i raid card and will be pairing this up with 6 WD Red 4 tb drives. My new raid card came without any instructions and just had a warranty card and basic handling instruction cad.

Card Link
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118231

The SAS cable to sata cable is a 1.0 meter internal cable SFF8643 to x4 SATA HDD (mini SAS HD to SATA data port). The thing that has me a bit confused is it has a fifth connector that has an 8 pin female end. It reminds me of a front panel usb 2.0 lead that you plug into a motherboard. I'm assuming that this is a hard drive breakout cable which indicates via an led light that a drive has failed. Does this sound right, and if so does anyone know of a breakout board that has these LED indicators that I can mount inside my HTPC chassis? If not then I'll just tuck it aside, but I wouldn't mind adding this feature.

http://store.lsi.com/index.cfm/Internal-Multi_Lane-Cables/All-Cables/LSI00411/

The end looks like the one pictured below (different brand has 10 pin female end where mine has 8)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...03242&ef_id=Uu6n9AAAACa95NWE:20140311171024:s
 
Mostly you will only find it on hotswap drive units, to plug it into.
It is a simple led connection though, easy enough to wire something up yourself.
I personally don't know of any breakout boards for it.
 
patrickdk said:
Mostly you will only find it on hotswap drive units, to plug it into.
It is a simple led connection though, easy enough to wire something up yourself.
I personally don't know of any breakout boards for it.
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Thanks Patrickdk, that's what I thought but just wanted to make sure as this is the first major raid card I've used besides the integrated Intel raid 0,1 on motherboards.
 
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