Table Of Contents - ATTO Technology UL3D Installation And Operation Manual

1 What is ATTO ExpressPCI? ........................................................ 1
Plug and Play for PCI-based computers
Features
Operating Systems
Dimensions
Power Requirements
Operating Environment
Reliability
SCSI Bus
2 SCSI is a key technology for storage ......................................... 3
Glossary
3 Installing the ExpressPCI SCSI Host Adapter ........................... 5
System requirements
Installation
3.1 Determining cabling and termination ................ 7
3.2 Installing and Updating Device Drivers ............. 11
4 Maximizing Performance with ExpressPCI HBA ....................... 15
Use the latest ATTO driver
Set registry for large block transfers
Set up RAID groups with ATTO ExpressRAID
Increase transfer size
Analyze your I/Os
5 Troubleshooting ........................................................................... 17
Appendix A Standards and compliances ..................................... i
Appendix B SCSI host adapter selection guide ........................... ii
Appendix C Fibre Channel host adapter guide ............................ iii
Appendix D Contact ATTO Technology, Inc. ............................... iv
Contents
Cable types
Examples
Connectors
Connection considerations
Termination
Windows Server 2003 & Windows 2000/XP
Windows NT Installation
Re-flashing Firmware in Windows
Linux and Sun Solaris Driver Installation
Updating Drivers and Re-flashing Firmware in Mac OS X
Updating Drivers and Re-flashing Firmware in Mac OS 9