Lindy 20775 How to use

20775 ~ Serial ATA Back Plane
Short Manual (provisional)
Introduction
The Serial ATA Back Plane is an internal drive housing that supports four (4) hot swap Serial ATA
hard drives in a three (3) 5.25” drive space. The Serial ATA Back Plane can be installed into any
PC Case, External Enclosure, or Disk Array Chassis that has available three 5.25” half-height
drive bays. It extends the storage capacity of your system and provides hot swap capability to the
Serial ATA hard drive installed. The Serial ATA Back Plane has been tested in typical desktop
system configuration with various host bus adapters and hard drives to ensure highest
compatibility. The configuration included current 7,200 rpm and 10,000 rpm drives from the
leading suppliers of disk drives.
Features
 Multi-layer backplane for high signal integrity
 Cableless drive tray design for Serial ATA
 Install (4) 3.5” LP hard drives into (3) standard 5.25” HH drive bays
 Meet Hot Swap specification for Serial ATA
 High quality aluminum housing
 Temperature controlled four-speed turbo blower for 10K/15K rpm HDDs (SATA)
 Microprocessor controlled sequential drive power-up (SATA)
 Visual and audible indicators for fan fail and overheat situations
 Auxiliary 3.3V power source for additional SATA devices
Specifications
Dimensions: 239 mm x 148 mm x 128 mm (D x W x H)
Weight: Approximately 2.2 kg (without drives)
Operating Temperature: 0°C ~ 55°C
Non-Operating Temperature: Non-Operating Temperature:

Installation
Setup and Operation
LED Indicators
There are four HDD status LED’s and one Fan / Temperature status LED on ASWAP as shown in Figure 2.
The functions of these LED are described in the table below: *
*Attention: HDD ACCESS LED Function is now reserved
LED Messages
HDD Status LED
LED Color Status
GREEN Hard drive is present and ready
RED Hard drive is not present or defective
Fan / Temperature Status LED
GREEN Fan is normal and no overheating
RED
Fan failed or temp. over the setting on CN3
Installation of HDD in Carrier
Installation of HDD in PC-Case
LED indicators

Overheat temperature setting ***
Jumper CN3 sets the overheating threshold temperature. There are three settings: 45°, 55° (default) or
65°C. Once the sensor on the backplane detects the operating temperature is over the setting. Audio alarm
buzzer will sound and Fan / Temperature LED will turn red. You can turn off the alarm buzzer by press the
mute bottom with a pointed object.
CN3 for choosing the temperature for audio alarm
45ºC 55ºC 65ºC
Delayed HDD start setting **
The HDDs can be started one by one. The start up mode can be set via JP4.
JP4 SETTING TABLE (for HDD start up mode)
Delay1(PIN 1,2) Delay2(PIN3,4)
All start (together) OPEN OPEN
Delay 1 sec (one by one) CLOSED OPEN
Delay 1.5 sec (one by one) OPEN CLOSED
Delay 2 sec (one by one) CLOSED CLOSED
**Attention: This Function is now reserved
*** Attention: This Function is now reserved The Functions will be ready by Shipment in August 2003
JP4 for sequent starting of HDDs