Fusion DX800RAID
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Driver (9)
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Manual (5)
IDDownload TitleDownload LinkPost Date
255 Configuration Tool and Utilities Operation Manual [English]May-08-19
283 Fusion DX800RAID (Without Drives) User's Guide [English]May-08-19
284 Fusion DX800RAID (With Drives) User's Guide [English]May-08-19
User's guide for the Sonnet Fusion DX800RAID 8-drive Serial ATA disk array storage system. These directions apply to storage systems with drives.
 
470 Fusion DX800RAID (With Drives) User's Guide [Japanese]May-08-19
594 Configuration Tool and Utilities Operation Manual [Japanese]May-08-19
 
FAQ (10)
IDArticle TitlePost Date
91 Installation of the Sonnet (ATTO OEM) RAID card in an 8-core Mac Pro with a Fusion D800RAID, R800RAID, or D400RAID storage system.May-12-09
202 Under Mac OS X 10.5.6, the PCI Express Expansion Slot Utility (early Mac Pro) always reports 8x, 1x, 1x, 16x no matter how its set.May-06-09
301 Formatting a drive array greater than 16TB with APT (Apple Partition Table) fails in a Macintosh.Jun-16-09
302 I connected two Fusion DX800 (RX1600) RAIDs to the same controller, but only one show up to the ATTO configuration tool and the OS.May-20-09
387 How do I replace a failed drive under warranty if I'm in a sensitive/classified environment and can't send the old one back?Mar-23-10
445 What is the default drive timeout in Fusion RAID systems? Should I change it?Mar-24-10
450 My storage shows 10% more capacity under OS X 10.6 than under OS X 10.5. Why?Mar-24-10
With Snow Leopard (10.6), Apple adopted the standard usage of terabyte (TB) which equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes = 10-to-the-12th bytes. Hard drive manufacturers have always specified drive capacity with standard usage which will now match what Mac OS X reports.

WIth Leopard (10.5) and previous versions of Mac OS X, Apple used the binary interpretation of terabyte, (technically a tebibyte) = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 2-to-the-40th bytes. Windows also uses binary interpretation.

Under Snow Leopard, drive capacity will be shown per drive specifications. For example, under OS X 10.6, a 1TB drive will appear as a 1000 GB capacity drive (but under OS X 10.5 as a 909 GB capacity drive). For additional information see support.apple.com/kb/TS2419.

What does this mean in real terms? Do I get an immediate increase in storage space?
Formatting or actual capacity does not change at all, only the reported capacity because of the change from base-2 to base-10.

Should I reformat the drives before attempting to plug in a previously 10.5 formatted unit into a 10.6 machine or vice versa?
Reformatting is not necessary at all.

What happens if I plug a 10.6 formatted unit into a 10.5 machine or vice versa?
The volume is seen normally. It is completely compatible and can be transparently moved back and forth.
 
737 I daisy-chained two DX800s and my drives don't show up.Mar-08-18
775 Does the ATTO R380 Support OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)?Oct-21-13
955 Can I use Seagate Iron Wolf drives; or Hitchai and WD drives 8TB and larger?May-31-18