HP PCIe IO Accelerator for ProLiant Servers

Appendix C: Utilities Reference 33
Appendix C: Utilities Reference
The Windows Setup package installs various utilities into the C:\Program Files\HP
StorageWorks IO Accelerator\Utils
folder, described in the table below.
Utility Purpose
fio-attach
Makes a PCIe IO Accelerator available to the OS
fio-beacon
Lights the PCIe IO Accelerator’s external LEDs
fio-detach
Temporarily removes a PCIe IO Accelerator from
OS access
fio-format
Used to perform a low-level format of a PCIe IO
Accelerator
fio-pci-check
Checks for errors on the PCI bus tree, specifically
for PCIe IO Accelerators
fio-status
Displays information about the device
fio-update-iodrive
Updates the PCIe IO Accelerator's firmware
fio-win-bugreport
Prepares a detailed report for use in
troubleshooting problems
NOTE: There are –
h (Help) and –v (Version) options for all of the utilities.
To run these utilities from a command line, you must either change directories to the directory
that contains them (by default,
C:\Program Files\HP StorageWorks IO
Accelerator\Utils
) or add that directory to your system path. See the documentation for
your version of Windows for information about adding a directory to the system path.
fio-attach
Description
Attaches the PCIe IO Accelerator and makes it available to Windows. You can then
partition, format, or set up the PCIe IO Accelerator as part of a RAID array using the
Windows Disk Management utility. This command displays a progress bar and
percentage as it completes the attach process.