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| How can I distinguish between the earlier Tempo-X eSATA (4+4 and 8e) products supporting 3 Gigabit/sec speeds and the older cards that support 1.5 Gigabit/sec speeds? | May-07-09 |
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36 |
| 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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42 |
| Can the Tempo SATA cards co-exist with other manufacturers' Serial ATA cards? | Oct-27-09 |
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44 | 
| How can I distinguish between the earlier Tempo-X eSATA products supporting 3 Gigabit speeds and the older cards that supported 1.5 Gb speeds? | May-07-09 |
| The new 3 Gigabit/second eSATA cards contain a rather large Marvell chip with the string "88SX6081" on it. Previous generation eSATA cards had a Marvell chip labeled "88SX5081". Additionally, you can check your Macintosh System Profile. When you select the installed eSATA card, the Device ID will show either "0x6081" or "0x5081". |
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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 |
| Our testing has shown that a four-drive array will sustain maximum reads and writes of about 200 MB/second in a 64bit, 33MHz PCI slot. An eight-drive array will not provide any additional performance beyond that of a four-drive array in that slot. To get significantly more performance, you need to use a machine with a PCI-X slot. |
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| Drive(s) connected to the Tempo-X SATA 4+4 occasionally do not appear when the computer is booted or an error message regarding the RAID array connected to the Tempo-X SATA 4+4 is occasionally displayed at boot up, and the RAID array cannot be used. | May-07-09 |
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219 |
| With a Tempo-X SATA host controller installed and drives connected, the computer locks up and will not respond to keyboard or mouse input, and must be forced to power off (press and hold the power button for more than 5 seconds) then restarted. | May-07-09 |
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| Multiple Hitachi hard drives connected to a Tempo-X SATA host controller are not always detected (won't mount). | May-07-09 |
| Affects: Hitachi 7K80, some T7K250, and 7K500 SATA hard drives switched to operate at 3.0 Gb/s when used with a Tempo-X SATA 4+4, Tempo-X eSATA 4+4, or Tempo-X eSATA 8 host controller card using the Marvell 88SX5081 chip.
This condition occurs when the listed Hitachi drives were first connected to a PC and switched to the 3.0 Gb/s data transfer setting using Hitachi's Feature Tool software; these drives originally shipped with the 1.5 Gb/s setting enabled. When connected to Tempo-X cards using the Marvell 88SX5081 chip (which supports 1.5 Gb/s transfers) the drives are not detected properly. Because these particular Tempo-X cards only support 1.5 Gb/s transfers, there is no benefit to switching the drives to the 3.0 Gb/s transfer setting. If you are unsure which Marvell chip is used on your Tempo-X card, you may check your Macintosh System Profile; when you select the installed Serial ATA card, the Device ID will show either "0x6081" or "0x5081".
Note: This DOES NOT affect the Hitachi 7K250 or 7K400 models that do not have the ability to support 3.0 Gb/s transfer nor does it affect Tempo-X eSATA 4+4 and Tempo-X eSATA 8 cards using the Marvell 88SX6081 chip.
To correct this issue, switch the drives back to the original 1.5 Gb/s setting using Hitachi's Feature Tool software. |
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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 |
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544 |
| How do I uninstall the Sonnet Pro SATA Driver? | Dec-26-10 |
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