Quick start guide for tempo hd – Sonnet Technologies Tempo HD (With or Without Drive) Mac Version User Manual
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Quick Start Guide for Tempo HD
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Drive Formatting—Mac OS 8.0 through OS 9.x
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) hard drives con-
nected to the Tempo HD using Apple Drive Setup under Mac OS 8.0–9.x. The
Drive Setup application is installed during the Mac OS installation process and
is usually located in the Utilities folder on the hard drive containing your active
System Folder. If you wish to format your drives with Disk Utility under Mac
OS X, please skip to the next section.
1. Turn on your computer.
2. Open Drive Setup (Figure 7).
3. At this point, you may optionally choose to partition each drive to cre-
ate smaller “virtual” drives to store and retrieve data faster and more effi -
ciently; in the Drive Setup menu bar, select Functions: Volume Settings…
Partition, and set up the partitions. When ready, select the drive listed as
drives (Figure 7). For drives larger than 2 GB, you should format them as
Mac OS Extended to take full advantage of their storage capacity.
4. Name each drive or volume once it has been initialized; each volume will
appear on the desktop as an individual “virtual” drive (Figure 8). You can
now use your drive(s).
Drive Formatting—Mac OS X
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) hard drives con-
nected to the Tempo HD using Disk Utility under Mac OS X Version 10.1; the
process under Version 10.2 is the same. The drive formatting utility is installed
during Mac OS X installation and is located in the Utilities folder (within the
Applications folder) on your OS X volume.
1. Turn on your computer.
2. During the boot process under Mac OS X, you may see an information
window appear, stating “You have inserted a disk containing no volumes
that Mac OS X can read.” If this message appears, click the Initialize… but-
ton to launch Disk Utility (Figure 9).
WARNING:
Hard drives attached to the Tempo HD will not mount
(appear on the desktop) until they have been formatted; this includes
drives with data on them, previously used in other computers. Please be aware
that formatting a drive erases any data present.
Support Note:
IDE hard drives attached to the Tempo HD will register
as SCSI devices to the computer under Mac OS versions prior to OS X.
For example, in Figure 7 the newly installed hard drive appears as