What are these cables?

well i thought they where 8087 miniSAS to sata, but if they are 8087 why are they too small for my L8i?
 
MrSmoke said:
well i thought they where 8087 miniSAS to sata, but if they are 8087 why are they too small for my L8i?
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The LSI card is indeed SFF-8087 and those cables you ordered SHOULD have worked. Can you elaborate what you mean by too small?
 
there are two different types of SAS breakout cables; "forward" and "reverse".

"forward" connects a mini SAS port on a motherboard or your LSI card to 4 SATA hard drives.

"reverse" connects a mini SAS port on the back of a hot-swap drive backplane to 4 SATA connectors on your motherboard or LSI card.

that looks to be a "forward" cable but they dont specify.

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http://www.techcable.com/HTML/MINI-SAS-Fanouts.htm
maybe that cable is an 8086 (26 pin) instead of an 8087 (36 pin)?
 
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ghost6303 said:
there are two different types of SAS breakout cables; "forward" and "reverse".

"forward" connects a mini SAS port on a motherboard or your LSI card to 4 SATA hard drives.

"reverse" connects a mini SAS port on the back of a hot-swap drive backplane to 4 SATA connectors on your motherboard or LSI card.

that looks to be a "forward" cable but they dont specify.

edit-
http://www.techcable.com/HTML/MINI-SAS-Fanouts.htm
maybe that cable is an 8086 (26 pin) instead of an 8087 (36 pin)?
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I've seen some people refer the ends as TARGET or HOST so make sure you understand that terminology.

TARGET = Drive
HOST = Controller / Raid Card

Comes from the old SCSI days.
 
ah thanks it is a 8086. Be nice if dealextreme said that on the page :/. Those 8086 look pretty uncommon for it to be assumed.
 
what do you expect when you're ordering from a website in hong kong.
 
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