ATTO Technology, Inc.

Installation and Operation Manual

ATTO ExpressPCI Ultra/WIDE SCSI Host Adapters

Express PCI PSC: Single-Channel Single-Ended Ultra/WIDE

ExpressPCI DC: Dual-Channel Single-Ended Ultra/WIDE

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07/2003 Document Control Number: PRMA-0112-000MD

Contents

1 What is ATTO ExpressPCI? ........................................................ 1

Features

Operating Environments

Power Requirements

Environmental and Physical Specifications

SCSI Connectors

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

Cable types

Examples

Connectors

Connection considerations

Termination

3.2 Installing and Updating Device Drivers ............. 11

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

4 Maximizing Performance with your 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