ATTO Technology Diamond Storage Array V-Class Technical Information

ATTO ExpressRAID Installation and Operation ManualMacintosh® OS 8.6 to 9.x© 2003 ATTO Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product

5 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh3 ExpressRAID Displays Bus, Device, VolumeThe ATTO ExpressRAID Device Window displays busses, IDs and devic

6DisplaysFibre Channel Device ID Information❖SCSI address of the device, where X is the bus number, Y is the ID Number and Z is the Logical Unit Num

7 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh4 Using ExpressRAIDATTO ExpressRAID is designed to be simple to use. Auto Detection, prompts, pull-down men

8Using ExpressRAIDmenu and select Enable Auto Detection. (If Enable Auto Detection has a check mark (9) in front of it, then it is enabled).If you w

9 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh5 ExpressRAID Provides Hard Disk UtilitiesHard disk utilities for the Macintosh OS include configuring mode

106 Volume control with ExpressRAIDVolumes are a usable quantities of storage composed of one or more partitions residing on one or more physical driv

11 ATTO Technology ExpressPro-Tools Installation and Operation ManualSelecting a drive in the device window and clicking the mount button mounts all v

12Volumesother tasks, including using the new RAID 1 volume, while ExpressWatch performs equalization in the background.Several options are availabl

13 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh7 Benchmarking a VolumeExpressRAID includes a utility for benchmarking drives to measure peak and sustaine

14BenchmarkingA spike in the graph indicates a disk read or write to or from the system cache or the cache incorporated in the disk being tested. Th

15 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh8 Configuring ExpressPCI Fibre Channel AdaptersExpressRAID may be used to configure ATTO ExpressPCI adapte

16Configuring ExpressPCI adaptersfor a particular ID. LUNs label multiple storage units that share the same ID. Disabling LUNs affects all target ID

17 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh9 Configuring ExpressPCI SCSI AdaptersExpressRAID may be used to configure ATTO ExpressPCI adapters, howev

18Configuring ExpressPCI adaptersEnable Wide IDs (8 - 15)Choices: Enabled, Disabled Default: EnabledAllows you to access Wide devices that may resid

19 ATTO Technology ExpressPro-Tools Installation and Operation ManualSynch Offset Choices: 0-16 for Ultra/Wide SCSI0-62 for Ultra3 SCSI0-127 for Ultra

20Configuring ExpressPCI adaptersthe trash. The drive will automatically remount when reinserted.PCI Burst Rate (Ultra3, Ultra/WIDE)Choices: 16 to 5

21 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh10 ExpressRAID Provides Driver InformationDevices (floppy drives, serial ports, hard drives, tape drives,

2211 FireWire SupportATTO ExpressRAID supports FireWire IEEE1394 Standard when using an Indigita SCSI Interface Module (SIM).FireWire is a high-speed

23 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh12 Error, Alert & Status MessagesSome errors are reported by ExpressRAID from sense data from devices

24Errors, alerts, status messagesProblem configuring Mode Pages for this drive! Unconfigurable pages will be left unchanged.Some mode page settings

Contents1 RAID Overview ...1RAID Level 0RAID Level 1ATTO Recommendatio

i ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for MacintoshAppendix A GlossarySome common terms used in the storage industry are defined below. More information about

iiGlossaryhost a processor, usually a CPU and memory, which communicates with devices over an interfaceinitiator device A component which originates

iii ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for MacintoshAppendix B SCSI Host Adapter Selection GuideATTO Technology offers a number of SCSI and Fibre Channel sol

iAppendix C Fibre Channel Host Adapter GuideComplete RAID packages are also available and include an ExpressPCI host adapter, ExpressRAID software and

v ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for MacintoshAppendix D Contact ATTO Technology, Inc. While we do our best to provide you all the information you will n

viAppendix D

9 Configuring ExpressPCI SCSI Adapters ...17Safeguard buttonsConfiguration utilitiesAdapter configurationsReco

1 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh1 RAID OverviewOriginally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, now Redundant Array of Independent Drives,

2RAID overviewExhibit 1-1 A graphical representation of data storage in RAID configurations.◗Each cylinder represents a separate physical drive.◗Eac

3 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh2 Installation and Quick Start InstructionsTo install ATTO ExpressRAID, put the ExpressRAID CD in the CD-RO

4Installation, quick startCreate a RAID 0 volume2a Click Create RAID 0 Volume.2b Select drives you wish to include in the RAID volume. To select mul