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ATTO Technology, Inc. Installation and Operation Manual ATTO ATTO Technology, Inc. Installation and Operation Manual ATTO ExpressPCI FCSW 64-bit PCI-to-1-Gigabit FC Host Adapter, SW optical SC interface ATTO ExpressPCI FC 2600 64-bit PCI-to-1-Gigabit FC Host Adapter, HSSDC interface © 2003 ATTO Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. All brand or product names are trademarks of their respective holders. No part of this manual may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express written permission of ATTO Technology, Inc. 10/2003 Document Control Number: PRMA-0259-000MD Contents 1 ATTO ExpressPCI provides Fibre Channel solutions 1 Advanced SCSI support PCI features Environmental, physical specifications 2 Fibre Channel is a key technology for storage ........ 3 Glossary 3 Hardware installation and initial configuration ........ 5 System requirements Fibre Channel address Installation Cabling Initial configuration 4 Installing/updating device drivers and firmware ..... 7 Windows 2000/XP driver installation Windows NT driver installation Mac OS X driver installation/update Re-flashing firmware Linux and Sun Solaris driver installation 5 Troubleshooting ......................................................... 9 General suggestions Windows 2000/XP Windows NT Macintosh Appendix A Standards and compliances .................... i Appendix B Fibre Channel accessories ...................... ii Appendix C SCSI host adapter selection guide .......... iii Appendix D Contact ATTO Technology, Inc. .............. iv 1 ATTO ExpressPCI provides Fibre Channel solutions All ATTO ExpressPCI models have been designed to ensure interoperability with Fibre Channel devices and compatibility with a broad range of servers and workstations to meet your needs. The ATTO ExpressPCI FCSW and ATTO Advanced SCSI support ExpressPCI 2600 host adapters offer high ❖ Exclusive Advanced Data Streaming performance for your applications. Each (ADSTM) Technology support conforms to a strict interpretation of Fibre ❖ SCSI-FCP over Fibre Channel support Channel specifications to ensure the adapter will work with a variety of other SAN (Storage Area ❖ SCSI-3 tagged command queuing Network) components. ❖ Large command FIFO The ExpressPCI FCSW is a 64-bit PCI-to-Fibre ❖ Disconnect/reconnect support Channel host adapter with a fixed short wave ❖ optical Fibre Channel interface. Asynchronous I/O support ❖ Bootable from attached disks The ExpressPCI 2600 is a 64-bit PCI-to-Fibre Channel host adapter with a fixed copper HSSDC Accelerated PCI bus management interface. ❖ PCI 2.2 and PCI 99 compliant ❖ Strict adherence to ANSI FC-AL-2, FC- ❖ PCI BusMaster rate of 528 MB/sec. in PLDA, FC-Tape and FC-FLA 64-bit/66 MHz PCI slots specifications ❖ 66MHz/64-bit PCI compatible. ❖ 1.0625-Gigabit data transfer rates, Backward compatible to 33MHz and 32- providing up to 200 MB/sec. throughput bit PCI in full duplex mode Environmental and physical ❖ Support for Class 2 and Class 3 transfers specifications ❖ Point-to-point, arbitrated loop and direct ❖ Temperature: 0-50° C fabric/switch attach topologies support ❖ Humidity: 10-90% non-condensing ❖ ASPI and SCSI Manager 4.3 compatible ❖ Short Card Form Factor ❖ Multiple initiator support ❖ Length: 6.521” ❖ LEDs for online and fault status ❖ Height: 4.2” ❖ Windows® XP/2000/NT; Windows ❖ MTBF: 150,000 hours 95/98; Linux, Sun® Solaris and Macintosh® OS, OS X ❖ MTTR: <15 minutes ❖ RAID kits available ❖ Power Requirements 1 Amp @ 5 Volts ❖ SNIA Fibre Channel host adapter API support 1 ATTO Technology ExpressPCI FC 3321 Installation and Operation Manual Features and Features and benefits 2-Gigabit Adapters FC 3342 FC 3322 FC 3321 FC 3300 FC 3305 Fibre Channel ports42211 Optical interface SW, LC, SFP SW, LC, SFP SW, LC, SFF Fixed SW LC Copper interface HSSDC Max. transfer rate 400 MB/sec per 400 MB/sec 400 MB/sec per 400 MB/sec 400 MB/sec channel per channel channel Class transfers 2, 3 2, 3 2, 3 2, 3 2, 3 Full duplex 77777 66/33 MHz PCI 66 MHz only 7777 compatible 133 MHz PCI-X 77 compatible 64- and 32-bit PCI 64-bit only 7777 compatible Windows® XP/2000/NT 77777 Windows Server 2003 77777 Solaris/Linux Linux Linux 77 Mac OS X Mac OSX 77 Mac OS 9 77 RAID support Mac OSX 77 Maximum cable length 300m @ 2-Gb 300m @ 2-Gb 300m @ 2-Gb 300m @ 2-Gb 25 m 500m @ 1-Gb 500m @ 1-Gb 500m @ 1-Gb 500m @ 1-Gb (175m with MIA) 2 2 Fibre Channel is a key technology for storage Fibre Channel is a serial communications technology designed to transfer large amounts of data among a variety of hardware systems over long distances. It is a key technology for applications that require shared, high bandwidth access to storage. Fibre Channel provides a logical, point-to-point, The Fibre Channel architecture is structured as a serial channel for the transfer of data between a hierarchical set of protocol layers. Defined within buffer at a source device and a buffer at a these layers are rules for signal interfaces, serial destination device. It moves buffer contents from encoding and decoding, error control, frame one port to another, without regard to the format format and communications protocols. or meaning of the data so different upper level ATTO ExpressPCI Fibre Channel host adapters protocols are able to run over Fibre Channel carry SCSI protocol over Fibre Channel. hardware. Glossary______________________________________________________________________________________ Some terms used in the Fibre Channel industry are defined below. More information is available through the ATTO Technology website (www.attotech.com), the Fibre Channel Industry Association (www.fibrechannel.com), Cern (www.cern.ch), the Storage Area Networking Industry Association (www.snia.org), and the Fibre Channel Consortium (www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums, click on FC). Term Definition ANSI American National Standards Institute arbitrate process of selecting one L_Port from a collection of ports which ask for use of the arbitrated loop at the same time arbitrated loop a loop topology (FC-AL) in which two or more ports are interconnected, but only two ports can communicate at one time; low-cost solution which may or may not use hubs and switches auto negotiation hardware senses and automatically responds depending on configuration BER Bit Error Rate: a measure of transmission accuracy; the ratio of bits received in error to bits sent bit Smallest unit of data a computer can process: a single binary digit with a value of either 0 or 1 bus a collection of unbroken signal lines used to transmit information from one part of a computer system to another; taps on the lines connect devices to the bus Byte an ordered set of 8 bits channel a point-to-point link which transports data from one point to another CPU Central Processing Unit: the portion of the computer that actually performs computations CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check: an error-correcting code which calculates a numeric value for received and transmitted data; if no error has occurred during transmission, the CRC for both received and transmitted data should be the same destination a value in the frame header of each frame which identifies the port in the node where the frame is address being sent device driver a program that allows a microprocessor to direct the operation of a peripheral device DMA Direct Memory Access: a way to move data from a storage device directly to RAM without using the CPU’s resources DMA bus master Allows a peripheral to control the flow of data to and from system memory by block as opposed to allowing the processor to control the data by bytes (PIO or programmed I/O) 3 ATTO Technology ExpressPCI FCSW and FC 2600 Installation and Operation Manual Glossary Term Definition fabric A Fibre Channel switch or two or more Fibre Channel switches interconnected to physically transmit data between any two N_Ports on the switch or switches FC Fibre Channel F_port A port in the Fibre Channel fabric where a N_port may attach FL_port A port in the Fibre Channel fabric where a NL_port may attach in an arbitrated loop frame an indivisible unit for transfer of information in Fibre Channel frame header the first field in the frame containing the address and other control information about the frame full duplex a communication protocol which allows transmission in both directions at the same time half duplex a communication protocol which allows transmission in both directions, but only one direction at a time host a processor, usually a CPU and memory, which communicates with devices over an interface initiator device A component which originates a command L_port a port in an arbitrated loop, either a NL_port or a FL_port LED Light-emitting diode: a type of diode that emits light when current passes through it; visible LEDs are used as indicator lights on all sorts of electronic devices LUN Logical Unit Number: an identifier for a logical unit (0-7) multi-mode fiber an optical fiber which can carry several beams of light at once N_port a port attached to a node used with point to point or fabric configurations NL_ port a port attached to a node in Fibre Channel arbitrated loop or fabric loop configuration originator an initiating device; a component which originates a command parity checking A method which verifies the accuracy of data transmitted over the SCSI bus by adding one bit in the transfer to make the sum of all the bits either odd or even (for odd or even parity); an error message occurs if the sum is not correct PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect. Allows peripherals to be connected directly to computer memory, bypassing the slower ISA and EISA busses point-to-point a topology
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