For SR2612URR, Can I connect the SAS midplane to the server board S5520UR directly?

[idata]

Hi,

Got my new SR2612URR yesterday. I came with the 12 drive slots with a SAS midplane and a cable connected from the SAS connector to the four of the siz on board SATA connector on the main board. After plug in six 500GB SATA drives and none of the was detected by BIOS. Can it works? Or I need additional piece of hardware to make it work?

[Edward_Z_Intel]

The SR2612UR uses a SAS expander, which requires a SAS controller. It doesn't work with the onboard SATA connectors.

See http://serverconfigurator.intel.com/Details.aspx?ID=3845 and http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sr2612ur/sb/CS-030820.htm http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sr2612ur/sb/CS-030820.htm

[idata]

I purchased with the Intel® Integrated RAID Controller SROMBSASMR2 (AXXROMBSASMR) and it just works fine after I configured all the six disk in a DG with RAID 5.

Thanks.

[Edward_Z_Intel]

Thanks for the update. Glad to be able to help

[idata]

Why this is not in the server configuration tool ?

I have lost time and money with this issue