Maintenance Manual

Managing the System

Disk Management

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After the target is connected, Windows will detect its presence and treat it as if

there is a new hard disk drive added that needs to be initialized and formatted

before it can be used.

STEP 9 Right-click My Computer > Manage. The Computer Management window opens.

STEP 10 Choose Storage > Disk Management from the left panel. A window displays

automatically and ask if you want to initialize the newly found hard drive.

STEP 11 Click OK and format this drive as you usually would when adding a new disk.

After disk initialization and formatting, the new drive is attached to your computer.

You can now use this iSCSI target as a regular disk partition.

Connect to the iSCSI Targets with Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator on Mac OS

This section shows you how to use Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator on the Mac OS to

add the iSCSI target (NAS) as an extra partition. Before you start to use the iSCSI

target service, make sure you have created an iSCSI target with a LUN on the NAS

and installed the correct iSCSI initiator for your OS.

About Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator

ATTO's Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator for Mac OS X allows Mac users to utilize and

benefit from iSCSI. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.x to 10.6.x. For more

information, see:

http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=INIT-MAC0-001

For the Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator download, there might be a charge for this

software. For freeware, you can check the global SAN iSCSI initiator released by

Studio Network Solutions (SNS).

NOTE After installing Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator, you can locate it in Places > Applications.

To use Xtend SAN iSCSI initiator on Mac:

STEP 1 In your Mac OS, choose Places > Applications > Xtend SAN.

STEP 2 Click the Discover Targets tab.

STEP 3 Choose either Discover by DNS/IP or Discover by iSNS depending on the

network topology. In this example, the IP address is used to discover the iSCSI

targets.