Reverse not forward the cable matters mini sas to 4x sata reverse breakout cable connects 4 discrete sata ports on a raid controller host to a mini sas sff 8087 multi lane port on a backplane.
Forward vs reverse breakout cable.
But they are not exchangeable.
I just need a definite confirmation that forward equals 1 1 or a specific test i could conduct e g.
Eur usd and gbp usd are both approaching a key decision zone.
Live and learn i guess.
There is an excellent answer to this question in a post by barrygordon over on the unraid server community.
So if you have a lsi 9211 8i hba 2x sff8087 and want to connect to 4 sata drives you just bought then you need a sff 8087 forward breakout crossover cable.
I hope this is the right thread to post my sas conudrums.
If you have a motherboard and want to make use of a hotswap bay much like that in.
For future expansion i m thinking of moving to a narco rpc 4224 which has 24 sata drive bays connected to 6 sas backplanes with 4 drives on each.
The cable is showing a potential head and shoulders chart pattern for instance whereas the eur.
I currently have 8x sata drives which are connected to 8 out of 10 sata connectors on my motherboard and on a raid card.
One fans out from an sff 8087 connector say an hba a forward breakout cable and the other concentrates say from a motherboard to an sff 8087 passive backplane reverse breakout kangmin cao april 3.
To make it simple if the host controller side is a sas connector sff 8470 and the target side is sata drives then you must always use a sas to sata forward breakout cable.
I can only find 1 1 aka straight through or crossover.
Question about sas sata and forward and reverse breakout cables.
Also 8087 4x 7pin sata cables come in two variants forward and reverse breakout.
I actually by mistake bought the cable you are looking for the phrase is.
On forward cables pin x on minisas connects to pin y on the first sata.
I have no clue what cables i need to get.
It should not to be confused with a forward cable that functions in the opposite direction.
A bearish reverse or a bullish break.
Those cables sff 8087 sas sata look identical reverse vs forward except small description on the package or on the site.
Reverse fanout in contrary to forward fanout or forward reverse breakout.
Now my issue is.
For some reason the need had eluded med.