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ID		Article Title	Post Date
27		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
	You can check your Macintosh System Profile. When you select the installed eSATA card, the Device ID will show either "0x6081" or "0x5081". The 3 Gigabit/second eSATA cards use the Marvell chip 88SX6081. The 1.5 Gigabit/second eSATA cards use the Marvell chip 88SX5081.

36		What are the benefits of supporting Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC)?	Mar-02-10
37		Is it possible to boot from a volume that resides on the Tempo SATA card?	Mar-02-10
	Macintosh bootable volumes are supported on the internal 2-port PCI card (part number TSATA) but are not supported on any of the other SATA cards at this time.

39		Can I hot-swap a disk drive that is attached to any Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA card?	Mar-23-10
42		Can the Tempo SATA cards co-exist with other manufacturers' Serial ATA cards?	Oct-27-09
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
63		Can I operate two Tempo SATA cards in the same system?	Sep-02-09
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.

174		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
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
220		Multiple Hitachi hard drives connected to a Tempo-X SATA host controller are not always detected (won't mount).	May-07-09
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
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
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
459		The performance of my drive array is significantly less than I expect.	Jun-14-11
544		How do I uninstall the Sonnet Pro SATA Driver?	Dec-26-10
	Locate the SonnetSATA.kext file and delete it.