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first of all i'm sorry for my english.
I've an HBA similar to this with a SATAx4 adapter. 3 of those connectors are in Hard Disks drives, and the other is in a Quantum LTO-4 SAS Drive. That drive is damaged and I've bought a new HP drive with SAS too, but this new drive uses a different conector
Then my question is: Can i cut the right side of the SATA cable and connect to new drive?. Both drives are SAS 3Gbps and the new drive has the same power cable as old drive too (besides SAS power cable).
1something isnt right. you should not be able to use a SAS drive on a SATA controller. But you claim your old Quantum is SAS... What is the exact model number for the SATA controller? – Keltari – 2015-01-30T16:46:20.173
The HBA have a SAS1068E chipset, and is like this: http://www.pc-pitstop.com/images/sas3442e_r_large.jpg
and the quantum drive is this: http://www.quantum.com/serviceandsupport/softwareanddocumentationdownloads/lto-4hh/index.aspx
It uses a SATA cable, but interface is SAS (I can't use that drive in a normal SATA PC).