4
Drive Formatting—Individual Drives (Not in a RAID Array)
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) individual hard
drives connected to the Tempo-X eSATA 8 using Disk Utility under Mac OS X
Version 10.3; the process under Versions 10.4 and 10.2 are very similar. If you
intend to create a RAID array with the drives attached to the Tempo-X card,
skip to “Drive Formatting—RAID Arrays” on the next page.
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 3)
.
2.
If it is not already open, launch Disk Utility
(Figure 4)
. Note that all
attached drives appear in the information window, regardless of being for-
matted or not.
3.
Select the drive you want to format by single clicking the drive symbol or
the “name” of the drive
(Figure 5)
. At the bottom of the window, drive
capacity and connection type are listed.
4.
Click on the Partition button
(Figure 5)
. Click on the drop down menu
beneath “Volume Scheme:” and select a number of partitions for the vol-
ume; you may optionally choose to partition each drive to create two or
more smaller “virtual” drives.
5.
Click to highlight a partition, and then type a name in the Name field;
repeat for each partition
(Figure 5)
. After formatting, each will appear in
the Finder window as a drive. If you need to access a drive or partition
from Mac OS 9, be sure to click the Install Mac OS 9 Drivers checkbox.
6.
Click Partition
(Figure 5)
.
Figure 3
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Quick Start Guide for Tempo-X eSATA 8
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