LSI 9650SE-12ML RAID Card - Can this be hooked up to a SAS expander?

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I recently acquired a SuperMicro chassis that has a SAS2 expander backplane. It has SFF-8087 ports on it.http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/BPN-SAS2-846EL.pdfI made a post on another forum and someone mentioned that the card couldn't be used with that backplane since it's a SATA controller, however, the backplane is both SAS and SATA device compliant, it's only the RAID controller, as far as I know, that is a "SATA II" controller, and not a SAS controller.So, I couldn't find anything in the official documentation of this controller on whether or not it was able to control SAS devices. The card itself has a 3 SFF-8087 ports though, couldn't this theoretically still be used with a SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 cable(seen below)since the backplane is a SAS/SATA backplane?...
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Answer 1

Ok what am I missing here in trying to add another disk to the backup pool? One of the two disk they had died so it cannot be attached at this time and unfortunately I am remote and do not have access to the server, the new disk or the remaining pool disk. Right now the new disk is attached and I am trying to add it to the pool.
C:\Users\Administrator>wbadmin GET DISKS
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Disk name: DELL PERC H710 SCSI Disk Device
Disk number: 0
Disk identifier: {0ecbe8c9-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
Total space: 1843.19 GB
Used space : 352.77 GB
Volumes: [RECOVERY],C:[OS],E:[VHD Drive]Disk name: DELL PERC H710 SCSI Disk Device
Disk number: 1
Disk identifier: {b342079d-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
Total space: 18.80 GB
Used space : 100.33 MB
Volumes: D:[DATAPART2]Disk...