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| 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 |
| Originally, the Sonnet (ATTO OEM) RAID card in an 8-core Mac Pro should be installed in the PCIe compatibility slot, not a PCIe 2.0 slot. If the RAID card must be inserted in a PCIe 2.0 slot, please do the following:
1) Upon rebooting your machine, launch the ATTO Configuration Utility.
2) Select the CLI tab and type "automap" to mount the drive array.
Note: A recent firmware was posted to the Sonnet website to address this issue. |
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| ATTO R380 RAID Software (Feb. 2008) | Aug-05-09 |
| The February 2008 release of the ATTO software broke the "automaponboot" feature, in which an array that is moved to another machine will be automatically recognized. Sonnet will not be posting this update. For customers who may have upgraded directly from ATTO, we recommend they change the automaponboot setting to 'disabled.' This way on each reboot the mappings will persist.
The new ATTO software release included these enhancements:
* Staggered startup.
* Autorebuild - RAID will automatically start rebuilding if it finds a damaged disk replaced by a clean one.
* Adaptive read-ahead policy - will read ahead for long data streams, not for short ones. |
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| Fusion storage system activity lights are always on with Seagate ES.2 (Enterprise) drives installed in the drive bays. | Oct-22-10 |
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 |
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 |
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| Does the ATTO R380 Support OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)? | Oct-21-13 |
| Official ATTO support ends with OS X 10.8.5.
With OS X 10.9+, you will no longer be able to boot from a drive or array connected to an ATTO R380, and you will no longer be able to create new RAID groups. You can install current drivers for this card under Mavericks, but there will be no support from ATTO. Furthermore, Mavericks OS will complain at every boot about using unsigned drivers.
To transition to Mavericks, customers with an early Fusion DX800RAID storage unit equipped with an R380 RAID controller can purchase from Sonnet an R680 RAID controller with an included cooling upgrade kit.
All Fusion DX1600RAID units were equipped with an R680 RAID controller, which has complete Mavericks support.
The Fusion D800RAID and R800RAID storage units are not compatible with the ATTO R680 card. To transition to Mavericks, customers with a Fusion D800RAID or R800RAID must upgrade to a DX800 storage unit which includes an R680 controller. The drives can be moved with the RAID array intact. If you would like to make this upgrade, contact Sonnet sales to inquire about purchasing a DX800 without drives. |
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| Can I use an ATTO R680 with the R800RAID or D800RAID? | Jun-24-14 |
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| Can I use Seagate Iron Wolf drives; or Hitchai and WD drives 8TB and larger? | May-31-18 |
| Some newer drives use a hole pattern different from the traditional drive hole pattern for the bottom mounting points. The location of the bottom holes close to the connector did not change; however, the bottom holes near the middle have been removed and replaced with bottom holes close to the front of the drive.
The drives with the new bottom hole pattern include:
Seagate Iron Wolf drives (also missing the middle hole from the side mount hole troika)
Hitachi drives 8TB and larger
WD drives 8TB and larger
Incompatible mount holes
Echo 15+ Dock (side mount, but needs middle hole, so incompatible with only Seagate Iron Wolf)
Fusion F3 (bottom mount)
Fusion D400Q/R400P/D500P (bottom mount)
Fusion D800/R800 (bottom mount)
Compatible mount holes
Fusion R400S RAID (side mount)
Fusion R400 RAID USB 3 (side mount)
Fusion DX800/RX1600 (side mount) If using Iron Wolf line, must use Iron Wolf Pro with rotational vibration sensors
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