Sonnet Technologies Tempo SATA X4i Serial ATA Host Adapter Card - Manual (Page 5)

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Quick Start Guide for Tempo SATA X4i
Mac OS X Drive Formatting—Individual Drives (continued)
7. When the Partition Disk window appears, click the Partition button
(Figure 7). If necessary, repeat steps 3–6 to partition any other drives con-
nected to the Tempo card. When partitioning and formatting are com-
plete, close the Disk Utility application; you can now use your drive(s).
Mac OS X Drive Formatting—RAID Sets
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) multiple hard
drives connected to the Tempo SATA X4i using Disk Utility under Mac
OS X Version 10.4. If you choose to do so, you may format your drives using
SoftRAID 3.1 or later; refer to that product’s documentation for instructions.
1. Turn on your computer. During startup, your computer will display one or
more messages referring to an unreadable disk; click Initialize… to launch
Disk Utility
(Figure 8). After Disk Utility launches, click the Initialize but-
ton in each remaining message window.
2. If it is not already open, launch Disk Utility (Figure 9). Note that all
attached drives appear in the information window, regardless of being for-
matted or not.
Figure 7
Figure 8
Figure 9
Support Note: See page 7 for port and channel identification, and
information on Tempo SATA X4i’s status LEDs.
drives connected
to Tempo card