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Quick Start Guide for Tempo SATA X4i

 

5.

 Locate the power connector plugged into your computer’s 

existing hard drive. You should find at least one extra power 
connector near the existing drive; if you have installed 
only one new drive, plug the extra power connector into it. 

Connect only one power connector to the drive

. If you 

have installed more than one new drive, or there are no 
additional power connectors, you may need to use power 
cable Y-adapters or other adapters which will provide power 
to the connected hard drives. 

Verify the connectors are 

plugged in securely

.

 

6.

 Locate an available PCI-X or PCI slot inside your computer 

and remove its access cover, if present, from the rear of the 
computer. 

 

7.

 Remove the Tempo card from its packaging, and install it 

into the slot; 

make sure the card is firmly seated

 

8.

 Route the Serial ATA data cable(s) to the Tempo card; avoid 

heat sinks and make sure the cables will not get crushed or 
pinched by any part of the case when the computer is reas-
sembled.

 

9.

 Plug in the Serial ATA data cable(s) to the Tempo card.

 

10.

 Check the cable connections; 

make sure all cables are con-

nected securely to the Tempo card and the hard drives

 

11.

 Secure the Tempo card firmly in place with the previously 

removed mounting screw if necessary, and then close the 
computer; be very careful not to pinch the cables. 

 

12.

 

If you are a Mac user, skip to page 4. If you are a 
Windows user, continue below.

Windows XP Driver Installation

This section describes the installation of drivers to support the 
Tempo SATA X4i in systems running Windows XP. 

 

1.

 Turn on your computer; during Windows startup, two 

New Hardware Found

 pop-ups may briefly appear, with IDE 

Controller and Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 
listed as the new hardware types.

 

2.

 Log on to the Internet and point your web browser to:  

www.sonnettech.com/downloads/adapter_sw.html#tsata-
xwin

 

3.

 Find the file that matches the version of Windows XP you 

are using, click the Download button next to it, and save the 
file to your desktop.

  4. Locate the tempo-x file on the desktop. Right-click it and 

select Extract All…

  5. Click Start > Control Panel. When the 

Control Panel

 window 

appears, double-click the 

System

 icon. (If the 

System

 icon is 

not visible, click the Switch to Classic View link to make it 
appear.)

 

6.

 When the 

System Properties

 window appears, click the 

Hardware tab, and then click Device Manager.

 

7.

 When the 

Device Manager

 window appears, click on the + 

next to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers to expand the list. Right-
click on Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller and 
select Update Driver.

 

8.

 When the 

Hardware Update Wizard

 window appears, select 

“No, not this time”, and then click Next.

 

9.

 When the next window appears, select “Install from a list or 

specific location (Advanced)” and then click Next.

 

10.

 When the next window appears, select “Don’t search. I will 

choose the driver to install” and then click Next.

 

11.

 When the next window appears requesting you to select 

the device driver, select Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE 
Controller from the list, and then click Have Disk…

 

12.

 When the 

Install From Disk

 window appears, click Browse.

 

13.

 Navigate to and open the tempo-x folder, and then open 

the TempoXP folder, select “mvsata”, and then click Open.

 

14.

 When the 

Hardware Update Wizard

 window appears again, 

click Next.

 

15.

 When the 

Hardware Installation

 window appears, the Tempo 

card will be identified as “Marvell Serial ATA Gen 2 PCI-X 
Adapter”; click next. When the 

Hardware Installation

 window 

appears, Continue Anyway and the driver will be installed.

 

15.

 When the next window appears, click Finish.

 

16.

 Click Start > Turn Off Computer, and then click Restart; 

you may now format drives attached to the Tempo card.

Windows Drive Formatting

If you intend to format drives connected to the Tempo SATA X4i 
using Windows drive formatting tools, you may locate the infor-
mation by using “format volume” as the search item in Windows 
Help.

 

 Support Note for Power Mac G5 Users:

 If your 

computer has PCI-X slots, you should be aware that when 

certain standard 33 MHz PCI adapter cards are installed along 
with the Tempo card in slots 2 and 3, the Tempo card’s perfor-
mance may be adversely affected. 

Summary of Contents for TEMPO SATA X4i

Page 1: ...7 a m 5 p m Pacific Time Customer Service Phone 1 949 472 2772 E mail support sonnettech com Sonnet Technologies Inc Irvine California USA Tel 1 949 587 3500 Fax 1 949 457 6350 2006 Sonnet Technologies Inc All rights reserved Sonnet the Sonnet logotype Simply Fast the Simply Fast logotype and Tempo are trademarks of Sonnet Technologies Inc Macintosh and Mac are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc reg...

Page 2: ...ion Steps This section covers the installation of the Tempo SATA X4i into your system and connection of one or more hard drives 1 Shut down the computer 2 Open your computer to access its expansion card area PCI X or PCI slots refer to your computer s user manual for specific information 3 Install your hard drives now Depending on your computer model drive mounting hardware may be required to secu...

Page 3: ...next to it and save the file to your desktop 4 Locate the tempo x file on the desktop Right click it and select Extract All 5 Click Start Control Panel When the Control Panel window appears double click the System icon If the System icon is not visible click the Switch to Classic View link to make it appear 6 When the System Properties window appears click the Hardware tab and then click Device Ma...

Page 4: ...w regardless of being for matted or not 3 Select a drive you want to format by clicking the drive symbol or the name of the drive Figure 6 At the bottom of the window drive capac ity connection type and connection ID information are listed 4 Click on the Partition button Figure 6 Click on the drop down menu beneath Volume Scheme and select a number of partitions for the vol ume you may optionally ...

Page 5: ...nder 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 remaini...

Page 6: ... Set and then type in the name for your RAID set Figure 10 Click the Create button 6 When the Creating RAID window appears click the Create button all of the selected drives will be formatted and the RAID set created Figure 11 Close Disk Utility your drives are now ready for use and your installation is complete Figure 10 Figure 11 Support Notes The remaining steps in this section describe the cre...

Page 7: ...at may be helpful if you need to diagnose any issues Figure 12 2 When drives connected to the Tempo card are powered and active the status LEDs on the card will light Figure 13 Green LED ON Drive s present and ready Amber LED ON Flashing Drive s reading writing data Figure 12 Figure 13 channel 4 channel 3 channel 2 channel 1 green LEDs amber LEDs ...

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