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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
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
68		Can I use the Tempo-X eSATA 8 card in slot 4 of a Power Mac G5?	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
	Under Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, a volume greater than 2TB will show as a 2TB volume due to a limitation in Apple's ATA layer (just above the driver). Sonnet plans to provide a 10.4 fix in the next driver release. Under Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, the full capacity of the RAID volume is available.

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.

544		How do I uninstall the Sonnet Pro SATA Driver?	Dec-26-10