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Cabling, Optional sata or sas cabling, Standard sata hard drive cabling – HP ProLiant ML350 G5 Server User Manual

Page 65: Optical drive cabling

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Cabling

Optional SATA or SAS cabling

Many configurations are possible when SATA or SAS controllers are added. When upgrading the
storage controller, refer to the Quickspecs and the cabling matrix to identify the correct cables

(

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmisc/vac/us/en/ss/proliant/proliant-ml.html

).

Standard SATA hard drive cabling

Item Description

1

SATA cable (drives 1-4)

2

SATA cable (drives 5-8)

Optical drive cabling

IMPORTANT:

If both SATA and PATA optical devices are installed simultaneously, only one

can boot at a time. Boot priority will go to SATA if media is inserted into the SATA optical
drive. Boot priority for PATA is not configurable. To boot PATA, remove the media from the

SATA optical device, or remove the SATA optical device.