Tempo SATA X4i
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IDArticle TitlePost Date
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
39 Can I hot-swap a disk drive that is attached to any Sonnet Tempo Serial ATA card?Mar-23-10
40 How does hot-swap functionality work?Mar-02-10
Hot-swap functionality enables you to connect and disconnect drives without having to power down your computer. This does not mean you can simply pull out a drive at any time; you must put away ("eject", "unmount", "dismount") the drive volume. For Mac OS X users, simply drag the drive icon associated with the drive(s) you wish to remove to the eject icon on the dock; Windows users using a Tempo SATA ExpressCard/34 may left-click on the eject icon in the taskbar for the drive they wish to eject. Only after the drives are ejected (unmounted) is it safe for you to disconnect the drives or cables. If you do not follow this procedure, data on your drives may become corrupted.
 
42 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.
 
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
106 Is Tempo SATA E4P, E4i, X4P, or X4i compatible with Red Hat Linux?Sep-02-09
120 How do I set up a RAID 0 striped array under Windows XP Professional or Vista?Mar-23-10
121 Can I set up a RAID 1 mirrored array under Windows XP or Vista?Mar-23-10
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
This does not happen often, but sometimes the driver caches do not get purged and the new SATA driver does not get loaded correctly from ROM.

Try this:
1) Delete and empty trash for the following file and two directories:
/System/Library/Extensions.mkext (a file)
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches (a directory)
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.romextensions (a directory)

2) Restart
 
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.
 
757 My Stardom RAIDSonic ST3620-2S-S2 is not reliable with 6Gb drives and and a 6Gb controller.Jul-08-13