Technical information

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
Adjust other parameters
5 ExpressRAID Provides Hard Disk Utilities .......................................9
Configure Mode Pages
Erase a Drive
Low-Level Format
Scanning Busses
Spin Drive Down
Spin Drive Up
6 Volume control with ExpressRAID ....................................................10
Create Standard Volume
Re-initializing a Volume
Mount a Volume
Unmount a Volume
Remove a Volume
Update drivers across volumes
Optimize volumes with mode pages
Verify Mirrored Volume
Equalize Mirrored Volume
Separate Mirrored Volume
ATTO Options
ExpressWatch Build in Background (RAID1 only)
7 Benchmarking a Volume ....................................................................13
Test parameters
Reading Benchmark results
8 Configure ExpressPCI Fibre Channel Adapters ..............................15
Safeguard buttons
Configuration parameters
Connection mode options