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On my motherboard, the ASUS Z9PA-D8, it says that it has a row of 8 SAS ports for connecting to SAS hard drives.

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I'm talking about the line of blue things running horizontally in the bottom right of the image. They clearly look like SATA III ports. And I can connect a SATA III 6.0 GB/S data transfer cable into them. But, when I go to connect them to a SAS hard drive, it doesn't work.

What kind of cable should I buy to connect from this port to a usual SAS hard drive?

On page 51 of the documentation, it calls them "PSAS connectors", but I don't know what that means, and it's not on the web. I just want to know how to get these SAS hard drives working with this board.

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On my motherboard, the ASUS Z9PA-D8, it says that it has a row of 8 SAS ports for connecting to SAS hard drives.

Your getting confused. Your motherboard documentation indicates that the ASUS Pike 2008 add-on card is required for those 8 ports to work.

What kind of cable should I buy to connect from this port to a usual SAS hard drive?

You don’t need a cable. You need the optional Pike 2008 add-on card suggested by your manual. Those 8 ports require the ASUS Pike 2008 card to function.

On page 51 of the documentation, it calls them "PSAS connectors", but I don't know what that means, and it's not on the web. I just want to know how to get these SAS hard drives working with this board.

It also explicitly describes what a PSAS SAS port is.

PSAS connectors are for the SAS signal cables for SAS hard disk drives that allows up to 6Gb/s of data transfer rate.

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