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ATTO Technology R30F Installation And Operation Manual

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ATTO ExpressRAID
Installation and Operation Manual
Macintosh® OS 8.6 to 9.x
© 2003 ATTO Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks of their
respective holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the
express written permission of ATTO Technology, Inc.
10/2003
Document Control Number: PRMA-0113-000MD

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  • Page 1 Macintosh® OS 8.6 to 9.x © 2003 ATTO Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks of their respective holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express written permission of ATTO Technology, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    1 RAID Overview ...1 RAID Level 0 RAID Level 1 ATTO Recommendations 2 Installation and Quick Start Instructions ...3 3 ExpressRAID Displays Bus, Device, Volume ...5 Device Window SCSI Bus Information Scanning busses Volume Window 4 Using ExpressRAID ...7 Auto Detection Unallocated Volume Space Update the ATTO Driver Ignoring Auto Detection...
  • Page 4 10 ExpressRAID Provides Driver Information ...21 11 FireWire Support ...22 12 Error, Alert & Status Messages ...23 Appendix A: Glossary ...i Appendix B: SCSI Host Adapter Selection Guide ...iii Appendix C: Fibre Channel Host Adapter Guide ...iv Appendix D: Contact ATTO Technology, Inc..v...

  • Page 6: Raid Overview

    You should strictly follow a backup policy to protect data stored on RAID 0 volumes. 1 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh 1 RAID Overview RAID Level 1 Disk RAID Level 1 (mirroring) ensures the security of data by writing data simultaneously to two or more drives.
  • Page 7 Exhibit 1-1 A graphical representation of data storage in RAID configurations. ◗ Each cylinder represents a separate physical drive. ◗ Each physical drive has been divided into partitions, labeled logical partition (LP) ◗ Physical Drive 4 has been initialized and is empty with no partitions or data.

  • Page 8: Installation And Quick Start Instructions

    Create A RAID Level 1 Volume Nothing To create a standard volume 2a Click Create Standard Volume. 3 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh 2b Set volume parameters. ATTO ExpressRAID automatically creates partitions based on the parameters you set 2c Click OK.
  • Page 9 Create a RAID 0 volume 2a Click Create RAID 0 Volume. 2b Select drives you wish to include in the RAID volume. To select multiple drives hold the Shift key and click on the drives. 2c Set volume parameters. ATTO ExpressRAID automatically creates partitions based on the parameters you set.

  • Page 10: Expressraid Displays Bus, Device, Volume

    ID or not. This option is most useful when configuring individual IDs using the ExpressPCI Configuration Options. 5 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh SCSI Bus Information SCSI bus information is displayed in bold type. Clicking on the triangle to the left displays or hides a SCSI ID and the devices attached to it.

  • Page 11: Scanning Busses

    Fibre 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 Number. The SCSI address shown is translated from the FC_AL address. ❖Type of device at that address ❖Manufacturer of the device ❖Amount of space available on the drive for creating new volumes: a completely...

  • Page 12: Using Expressraid

    Don’t Display this Message Again. After restarting your computer, open the ATTO ExpressRAID program. 7 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh Pull down the Options Menu and select Enable Auto Detection or Disable Auto Detection. If Enable Auto Detection has a check mark in front of it, then Auto Detection is enabled.

  • Page 13: Adjust Other Parameters

    menu and select Enable Auto Detection. (If Enable Auto Detection has a check mark ( ) in front of it, then it is enabled). If you would like to ignore Auto Detection, select Nothing, proceed to Main Window and click OK. Returning to the Main Window allows other options to be selected.

  • Page 14: Expressraid Provides Hard Disk Utilities

    However, sometimes drives are shipped unformatted. 9 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh If your drive is unformatted, or you suspect the drive contains bad sectors, you can format the drive by selecting Low-Level Format.

  • Page 15: Volume Control With Expressraid

    6 Volume control with ExpressRAID Volumes are a usable quantities of storage composed of one or more partitions residing on one or more physical drives. A standard volume creates a partition on a single drive. ATTO ExpressRAID creates, mounts, unmounts and configures volumes in the Macintosh OS environment. ExpressRAID is used to create new Macintosh OS volumes from drives (except ATA drives) on any SCSI Manager 4.3 compatible bus.

  • Page 16: Unmount A Volume

    To optimize a new volume for digital video or prepress Select Configure Mode Pages 11 ATTO Technology ExpressPro-Tools Installation and Operation Manual Select Set for Video or Set for Prepress from the Utilities Menu ExpressRAID examines the drive and selects the optimum mode page settings for digital video capture and playback or prepress.
  • Page 17 other tasks, including using the new RAID 1 volume, while ExpressWatch performs equalization in the background. Several options are available through ExpressWatch: Determines the number Busy/Timeout Retry Count of times a command to a physical device should be tried after errors have been returned to the driver logic. The driver’s error notification is written Log to File into a log file.

  • Page 18: Benchmarking A Volume

    10 MB/sec. to 200 MB/sec. After a benchmark test is finished, the transfer rate axis of the graph automatically adjusts to best fit the performance of the volume tested. 13 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh Sample Size Choices: 1, 2, 4, 8 Default: 2...
  • Page 19 A 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. The top of this spike is normally the peak read or write value. The peak value is also commonly referred to as the burst transfer rate.

  • Page 20: Configure Expresspci Fibre Channel Adapters

    ExpressPCI adapter to function incorrectly. You may only configure Fibre Channel busses labeled ATTO Technology. To access the configuration options for the ATTO ExpressPCI host adapter, double-click the appropriate bus or click the information button next to it.

  • Page 21: Connection Mode Options

    for a particular ID. LUNs label multiple storage units that share the same ID. Disabling LUNs affects all target IDs connected to the host adapter. Video Tuner Choices: Enable, Disable Default: Disabled If you are not using a Radius capture board, keep at the default (disabled) setting.

  • Page 22: Configuring Expresspci Scsi Adapters

    ExpressPCI adapter to function incorrectly. You may only configure SCSI busses labeled ATTO Technology. To access the configuration options for the ATTO ExpressPCI host adapter, double- click the appropriate bus or click the information button next to it.

  • Page 23: Reconfigure Device Ids

    Enable Wide IDs (8 - 15) Choices: Enabled, Disabled Default: Enabled Allows you to access Wide devices that may reside at these ID locations without affecting Wide data transfer capability. This option is included for compatibility with some older, 8-bit SCSI devices. Video Tuner (Ultra3, Ultra/WIDE) Choices: Enable, Disable Default: Disabled...

  • Page 24: Adjust Other Parameters

    Allows non-zero LUNs attached to third party host adapters to mount on your desktop at boot time. If you create an ATTO volume (RAID or non-RAID) on 19 ATTO Technology ExpressPro-Tools Installation and Operation Manual Sync Rate Choices: varies by adapter, see Exhibit 9.-2 Default: varies by adapter, see Exhibit 9.-2...
  • Page 25 the trash. The drive will automatically remount when reinserted. PCI Burst Rate (Ultra3, Ultra/WIDE) Choices: 16 to 512 bytes Default: 512 bytes SCSI only: May be changed to intervals between 16 and 512 bytes. Lowering the PCI burst rate for a device slows the host adapter card.

  • Page 26: Expressraid Provides Driver Information

    ExpressRAID driver so you would have to re-initialize the volume to install it. 21 ATTO Technology ExpressRAID for Macintosh What’s the difference between the driver in memory... and the driver on the disk?

  • Page 27: Firewire Support

    ATTO ExpressRAID supports FireWire IEEE1394 Standard when using an Indigita SCSI Interface Module (SIM). FireWire is a high-speed serial input/output technology used to connect peripherals to a computer. ATTO ExpressRAID supports the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 1394 standard for FireWire when used with an Indigita SCSI Interface Module (SIM).

  • Page 28: Error, Alert & Status Messages

    ID of the reporting device. Frequent sense-data messages include error or status messages. If you receive other sense-data messages, contact ATTO Technology or your storage vendor for more information. Device appears not to be formatted. Try formatting the device.
  • Page 29 To prevent any damage or corruption, these unrecognized settings will not be changed. Please report the model of this drive to ATTO Technology Technical Support so that its mode page settings can be added to future versions of ExpressRAID.

  • Page 30: Appendix A Glossary

    Appendix A Glossary Some common terms used in the storage industry are defined below. More information about Fibre Channel, SCSI and Storage Area Networks is available through the ATTO Technology website (www.attotech.com), the Fibre Channel Industry Association (www.fibrechannel.org), the Fibre Channel Consortium (www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums, click on FC), the SCSI Trade Association (www.scsita.org),...
  • Page 31 Term Definition host a processor, usually a CPU and memory, which communicates with devices over an interface initiator device A component which originates a command JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks: a storage subsystem using multiple independent disk drives with or without RAID configuration.

  • Page 32: Appendix B Scsi Host Adapter Selection Guide

    Appendix B SCSI Host Adapter Selection Guide ATTO Technology offers a number of SCSI and Fibre Channel solutions for storage. The following chart compares the features of ExpressPCI SCSI host adapters. Supported platforms: Sun Solaris; Linux; NetWare; SCO Unix; Windows 2000, 95/98, NT, and Macintosh OS and OS X.

  • Page 33: Appendix C Fibre Channel Host Adapter Guide

    Appendix C Fibre Channel Host Adapter Guide Complete RAID packages are also available and include an ExpressPCI host adapter, ExpressRAID software and appropriate cable(s). Add “-KIT” suffix to host adapter product code (i.e. EPCI-3300- KIT). FC 3342 Fibre Channel ports Optical interface SW, LC, SFP Copper interface...

  • Page 34: Appendix D Contact Atto Technology, Inc

    Appendix D Contact ATTO Technology, Inc. While we do our best to provide you all the information you will need to use our products, we recognize that additional assistance is sometime required. If you have questions about installing, using or obtaining any of our products, you may contact us at: ATTO Technology, Inc.

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