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User’s Guide for Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34

You Should Have

The following items should be included in your product package:
• One Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 adapter
• One software and documentation CD

The following items are required (sold separately):
• One or two Serial ATA drive enclosures (with drives)
• One or two external Serial ATA (eSATA) data cables

System Requirements

Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 requires the following in order 
to operate in your system:
• ExpressCard/34 or ExpressCard/54 slot
•   Mac OS

®

 X Version 10.4 or later, or Windows

®

 7, Windows Vista

®

or Windows XP with SP2 installed* 

*   Creating RAID volumes under Windows requires dynamic disk stor-

age, a formatting option available with Windows 7 Professional, 

Enterprise or Ultimate (32- and 64-bit versions), Windows Vista 

Enterprise or Ultimate (32- and 64-bit versions), or Windows XP 

Professional (32- and 64-bit versions).  

In order to create RAID volumes larger than 2TB, you must do one 

of the following: Span (link together in a virtual chain) the volumes, 

and then format them as NTFS. -

OR

- Use GPT formatting. Note that 

drives and volumes with GPT formatting are not visible to any version 

of Windows XP Professional, nor to the 32-bit version of Windows 

Server 2003 SP1.

Remember to register your product online at http://registration.sonnettech.com to be informed of future upgrades and product releases.
Software updates and links are available from the Sonnet web site at www.sonnettech.com. • Online support form available at http://supportform.sonnettech.com.
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Sonnet Technologies, Inc., Irvine, California USA • Tel: 1-949-587-3500 Fax: 1-949-457-6349 

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UG-TSATAII-PRO-E34-E-B-052610

TEMPO

 SATA PRO EXPRESSCARD

|

34

        

eSATA Host Controller for ExpressCard Slot

 

 WARNING:

 

Before using the Tempo SATA Pro 

ExpressCard/34 card with your computer, you MUST 

run the driver installation software

. Otherwise, the card will 

not work in your system.

 

 Support Note:

 The software on the included Installer CD 

may not be the latest version available. Before installing this 

product, check the version number of the software on the CD 
and what’s available at www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php. 
Download and install the newer version, if available.

Summary of Contents for TEMPO SATA PRO EXPRESSCARD/34

Page 1: ...online at http registration sonnettech com to be informed of future upgrades and product releases Software updates and links are available from the Sonnet web site at www sonnettech com Online support form available at http supportform sonnettech com Sonnet Technologies Customer Service hours are Mon Fri 7 a m 4 p m Pacific Time Customer Service Phone 1 949 472 2772 E mail support sonnettech com S...

Page 2: ...he included CD into the computer s optical drive 2 Double click the Sonnet Tempo SATA Installer icon and then double click the Tempo SATA Pro Installer x x x pkg file to launch the installer when the Welcome to the Tempo SATA Pro for Mac Pro and MacBook Pro Installer window appears click Continue 3 When the Important Information window appears click Continue 4 When the Software License Agreement w...

Page 3: ...indows Logo testing click Continue Anyway 11 When the Windows has successfully updated your driver software window appears click close you may now format drives attached to the Tempo card Skip to page 7 for drive formatting information Support Note After its driver software has been updated Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard 34 will be listed as a Storage Controller in the Device Manager window under Wind...

Page 4: ...tall from a list or specific location Advanced and then click Next 7 When the next window appears click Don t search I will choose the driver to install and then click Next 8 When the next window appears click Have Disk a new window will appear Insert the Tempo SATA Host Adapter Software CD into your computer s optical drive and then click Browse a new window will appear 9 In the Locate File windo...

Page 5: ... in a drive you don t want included in the RAID 4 From the drop down menus select the volume format and the RAID scheme Striped RAID Set and then type in the name for your RAID volume Figure 4 5 Click the Options button From the drop down menu select a RAID block size Figure 5 If you are working with video selecting the largest block size will help improve performance If you are working with many ...

Page 6: ... 2 If it is not already open launch Disk Utility Figure 6 Note that all drives attached to the Tempo card may be identified in the information window by their custom icon with the Sonnet S logo 3 Select one of the drives you want to format by clicking the drive symbol or the name of the drive a set of tabs will appear in the right pane Click the Partition tab and then click on the drop down menu b...

Page 7: ...gement under Storage to launch the Disk Management application 5 If an Initialize Disk window appears or if disks are described as not initialized select a partition style for the attached drive s and then click OK the drive will be initialized Figure 9 Repeat as necessary with other drives attached to the Tempo card 6 Right click the field next to the name field of one of the attached drives and ...

Page 8: ...e connected to Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard 34 you can identify individual drives within those enclosures in Disk Utility Figure 11 top In the Connection ID field Channel indicates the channel as well as the connector on the Tempo card while Port identifies the drive in the enclosure When drive enclosures without port multipliers are connected a simple drive to card signal path exists In the Connect...

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