Sonnet Technologies Tempo-X SATA 4+4 8-Port Serial ATA PCI-X Host Adapter Card - Manual (Page 5)

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Quick Start Guide for Tempo-X SATA 4+4
Drive Formatting—Individual Drives (continued)
7. When the Warning window appears, click the Partition button (Figure 6).
If necessary, repeat steps 3–6 to partition any other drives connected to the
Tempo-X card. When partitioning and formatting are complete, close the
Disk Utility application; you can now use your drive(s).
Drive Formatting—RAID Arrays
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) individual hard
drives connected to the Tempo-X SATA 4+4 using Disk Utility under Mac OS X
Version 10.3; the process under Version 10.2 is very similar. 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 may display a
message(s) referring to “unreadable volumes”, click Initialize… to launch
Disk Utility (Figure 7).
2. If it is not already open, launch Disk Utility (Figure 8). Note that all
attached drives appear in the information window, regardless of being for-
matted or not.
3. Select one of the drives you want to format in a RAID array by single-
clicking the drive symbol or the “name” of the drive (Figure 8). In the
information window, the drive capacity and Connection type are listed.
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Figure 8
Support Note: All hard drives connected to the Tempo-X card will be
described by Disk Utility as having an internal connection (Figure 8).