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| What are the benefits of supporting Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC)? | Mar-02-10 |
| Spread Spectrum Clocking is a way to lower electromagnetic interference or EMI. This is important for storage solutions that are required to pass FCC and other agency certifications. All current Serial ATA disk drives implement SSC (some allow you to turn this feature on/off). However, some older SATA drives do not implement SSC. All Sonnet Serial ATA host adapter cards support SSC but will also work with disk drives that do not. |
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| Is it possible to boot from a volume that resides on the Tempo SATA card? | Mar-02-10 |
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| Can I hot-swap a disk drive that is attached to any Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA card? | Mar-23-10 |
| Yes, but it depends on the computer's operating system (Mac OS or Windows). Sonnet Tempo SATA PCIe, PCI-X, PCI, and ExpressCard/34 cards support drive hot swapping only when used in Mac computers running Mac OS. SATA drive hot swapping is not supported in a desktop or server PC running Windows XP, Server 2003, or Vista. A SATA drive appears to Windows as a fixed hard drive and there is no mechanism in Windows to prepare the drive for removal except in notebook computers.
Tempo SATA and SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 cards support drive hot swapping in both Mac and Windows notebook computers. |
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| How does hot-swap functionality work? | Mar-02-10 |
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| Can the Tempo SATA cards co-exist with other manufacturers' Serial ATA cards? | Oct-27-09 |
| Often, yes. Sometimes, not. Some other manufacturers' drivers may incorrectly assume a Sonnet card is their SATA card which may cause havoc. The symptoms include significantly slower performance, driver not loading, or both drivers loading and causing and kernel panics as they both try to access the same card. Sonnet recommends removing other manufacturer's card(s) and driver(s) if a problem of this type occurs. |
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| 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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| 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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| Can I set up a RAID 1 mirrored array under Windows XP or Vista? | Mar-23-10 |
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| 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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| 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 |
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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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| 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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| The performance of my drive array is significantly less than I expect. | Jun-14-11 |
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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 |
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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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