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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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3. If you have not already done so, open Disk Utility (Figure 10). Note that

all attached drives appear in the Information tab window, regardless of
being formatted or not.

4. Select the drive you want to format by single-clicking the drive symbol

or the “name” of the drive (Figure 10). In the Information tab window, the
drive capacity and Connection ID (Master or Slave) are listed.

5. Click on the Partition tab (Figure 11). When the Partition tab window

appears, click on the drop down menu beneath “Volume Scheme:” and
select a number of partitions for the volume; you may optionally choose
to partition each drive to create two or more smaller “virtual” drives to
store and retrieve data faster and more effi ciently. For drives larger than 2
GB, you should format them as Mac OS Extended to take full advantage
of their storage capacity. Click OK (or Partition if you are using Mac OS X
Version 10.2).

6. Name each volume; after formatting, each will appear in the Finder win-

dow as a drive. Once you have made your name and partition choices,
click OK (Figure 12).

7. When the Warning! window appears, click the Partition button

(Figure 12). If necessary, repeat steps 4–6 to partition other drives con-
nected to the Tempo HD. When partitioning and formatting are complete,
close the Disk Utility application; you can now use your drive(s).

Figure 12

Support Note:

IDE hard drives attached to the Tempo HD will register

as ATA devices to the computer under Mac OS X. For example, in

Figure 10, the Connection Bus for the newly installed hard drive is listed as ATA.