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| What are the benefits of supporting Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC)? | Mar-02-10 |
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37 |
| Is it possible to boot from a volume that resides on the Tempo SATA card? | Mar-02-10 |
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39 |
| Can I hot-swap a disk drive that is attached to any Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA card? | Mar-23-10 |
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40 |
| How does hot-swap functionality work? | Mar-02-10 |
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42 |
| Can the Tempo SATA cards co-exist with other manufacturers' Serial ATA cards? | Oct-27-09 |
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63 |
| Can I operate two Tempo SATA cards in the same system? | Sep-02-09 |
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67 |
| What kind of performance can I expect from a using a Sonnet Tempo SATA Card in a PCI slot (like in a Power Mac G4)? | Oct-12-09 |
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96 |
| Is Tempo SATA X4P compatibility with all sub-versions of Mac OS 10.4? | Oct-13-09 |
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100 |
| Mirrored (RAID 1) will sometimes hang on erase volume. | May-11-09 |
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118 |
| Unable to connect Sonnet Tempo eSATA locking cable to a Tempo SATA E4P card in an Apple Xserve. | May-06-09 |
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120 | 
| How do I set up a RAID 0 striped array under Windows XP Professional or Vista? | Mar-23-10 |
| To create a striped array you must first have at least two drives with a portion of 'unpartitioned space' free. The largest stripe you can create will be twice the size of the smallest unused space on either of the disks. If you have two disks, one with 500GB of unpartitioned space and one with 750GB, the largest striped array you could create would be 2 x 500GB = 1000GB, as the area of space used by the stripe on each disk must be the same.
The first step is to convert both disks from basic to dynamic disks within Windows. A dynamic disk is a disk that contains an additional database of other dynamic disks on the system. Dynamic disks can only be read by Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, and the various Windows Server operating systems, and are required to create software RAID arrays within Windows.
To convert a disk from basic to dynamic, follow these steps:
1) Right click the grey box on the left that contains the disk names (disk 1, disk 2, etc.) and select 'convert to dynamic disk'.
2) From the next window you can check both blank drives and click 'ok' to convert them.
3) Once both disks are listed as dynamic, right click the 'unpartitioned space' of either drive and select 'new volume.'
4) In the 'select volume type' window, select 'striped.' Add all disks you wish to use, then decide on the amount of space on both disks you wish to use for the striped volume you are about to create. If you wish, you use only part of each disk for the stripe, leaving the rest free for other uses.
5) Choose a drive letter or folder to use, and the method of formatting, and you are done. The striped array will format and be ready for use. |
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121 |
| Can I set up a RAID 1 mirrored array under Windows XP or Vista? | Mar-23-10 |
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170 |
| Tempo SATA X4P: 1) Although labeled a 3726, software identifies the drive enclosure's port multiplier as a Silicon Image 4726, but without the RAID features 2) With no drives in the enclosure, Disk Utility shows a "phantom" SV-2000 device 3) Completely unpredictable performance and reliability of drives mounted in these enclosures. | May-07-09 |
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404 |
| The Sonnet Tempo SATA card does not work with my Western Digital My Book Premium ES Edition, or Seagate Technology FreeAgent Pro. | Mar-02-10 |
| Sonnet Tempo cards are compatible with most external SATA storage. However, external hard drives with USB 2.0/eSATA dual interface based on the Oxford Semiconductor OXU931DS storage controller chip may not be compatible with Mac OS X when connected via SATA. Known issues are kernel panics occurring when the drive is connected, or the drive not being recognized by the operating system.
Summary of eSATA storage
- Storage with eSATA alone.......................................................compatible
- Storage with Triple interfaces.................................................compatible
- Storage with Quad interfaces..................................................compatible
- Storage with eSATA plus Firewire 400 and/or 800..................compatible
- Storage with port multiplier support (multiple drives).............compatible
- Storage with RAID 0, 1, or 5 (multiple drives)..........................compatible
- Storage with eSATA plus USB (based on JMicron 20366)..........compatible
these compatible drives include, but are not limited to:
1) OWC Mercury On-the-Go USB 2.0/eSATA 2.5" portable
- Storage with eSATA plus USB (based on Oxford OXU931DS)....not compatible
these incompatible drives include, but are not limited to:
1) Western Digital My Book Premium ES Edition
2) Seagate Technology FreeAgent Pro |
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452 |
| I upgraded my Tempo SATA software in a PowerMac G4 or G5 and the card is giving a lot of system errors. | Oct-12-09 |
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454 |
| I have connected a large hardware RAID volume (for example, a 4TB Fusion D400QR5) to a Sonnet Pro SATA card in a Macintosh, and it is showing up as only 2TB. Why? | Oct-14-09 |
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459 |
| The performance of my drive array is significantly less than I expect. | Jun-14-11 |
| Another manufacturer's previously-installed SATA driver may be accessing a Sonnet SATA card in error causing a drive access slowdown. For example, we have seen Fusion D400QR5 performance drop from 200MB/s to under 50MB/s in such circumstances. The solution is to remove the other manufacturer's SATA driver. |
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491 |
| Are Sonnet Tempo SATA cards compatible with the Drobo S? | Feb-02-11 |
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544 |
| How do I uninstall the Sonnet Pro SATA Driver? | Dec-26-10 |
| Locate the SonnetSATA.kext file and delete it. |
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757 |
| My Stardom RAIDSonic ST3620-2S-S2 is not reliable with 6Gb drives and and a 6Gb controller. | Jul-08-13 |
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