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TEMPO

 ATA

100

Macintosh

®

 PCI Host Adapter Card

Quick Start Guide for Tempo ATA100

You Should Have

The following items should be included in your product package:

•  One Tempo ATA100 Macintosh PCI Host Adapter
• One Ultra ATA Cable (supporting two internal hard drives)
• Eight screws (for mounting hard drives)
• One Tempo AV Tool Diskette

The following items may be required for installation:

• Medium Phillips screwdriver
• Small flat blade screwdriver 
• Needle nose pliers
•   Drive mounting brackets/carriers or drive mounting sleds (sold 

separately)

• One additional Ultra ATA Cable (sold separately)
• One or more power cable Y-adapters (sold separately)

System Requirements

The Tempo ATA100 requires the following in order to operate 
in your system:

• One available PCI slot
• One or more hard drives (depending on confi guration)
• One or more available hard drive bays (depending on confi guration)
• Mac

®

 OS 8.0 through OS X Version 10.2.x

 

 Support Notes:

 We recommend that you make a backup of important 

information on your system’s current hard drive prior to installing new 

hardware or software. 

When handling computer products, you must take care to prevent components 
from being damaged by static electricity. Before opening your computer or 
removing parts from their packages, always ground yourself first by touching 
a metal part of the computer, such as a port access cover, and work in an area 
free of static electricity; avoid carpeted areas. Handle all electronic components 
only by their edges, and avoid touching connector traces and component pins.

Remember to register your product online at http://registration.sonnettech.com to be informed of future upgrades and product releases.

Software updates and links are available from the Sonnet web site at www.sonnettech.com. • Online support form available at http://supportform.sonnettech.com.

Sonnet Technologies Customer Service hours are Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.–5 p.m. Pacific Time • Customer Service Phone: 1-949-472-2772 • E-mail: [email protected]

Sonnet Technologies, Inc., Irvine, California USA • Tel: 1-949-587-3500 Fax: 1-949-457-6350 

©2001 Sonnet Technologies, Inc.  Revised 2003. All rights reserved. Sonnet, the Sonnet logotype, Simply Fast, the Simply Fast logotype, and Tempo are trademarks of Sonnet Technologies, Inc. Tempo ATA100 includes technol-
ogy by FirmTek, LLC. Macintosh and Mac are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Other product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Product specifications 
subject to change without notice. Printed in the USA.  QS-TAT-100-E-071503

Summary of Contents for TEMPO ATA100

Page 1: ...ectricity Before opening your computer or removing parts from their packages always ground yourself first by touching a metal part of the computer such as a port access cover and work in an area free of static electricity avoid carpeted areas Handle all electronic components only by their edges and avoid touching connector traces and component pins Remember to register your product online at http ...

Page 2: ...he master setting when not Figure 3 When connecting three or four drives to two Ultra ATA cables you must set the jumpers on two drives to the master setting and to the slave setting on the other drive s Figure 3 4 Install the hard drives into expansion bays Depending on your comput er model drive mounting brackets carriers or drive mounting sleds may be required to install your hard drives Refer ...

Page 3: ...de your computer and remove its port access cover if present from the rear of the computer 10 Install the Tempo card into the PCI slot make sure the card is firmly seated 11 Route the Ultra ATA cable s to the Tempo ATA100 card avoid the proces sor s heat sink and make sure the cables will not get crushed or pinched by any part of the case when the computer is reassembled Tempo ATA100 Macintosh PCI...

Page 4: ...es Figure 7 For drives larger than 2 GB you should format them as Mac OS Extended to take full advantage of their storage capacity 4 Name each drive or volume once it has been initialized each volume will appear on the desktop as a single virtual drive Figure 8 You can now use your drive s Drive Formatting Mac OS X This section describes the process of formatting initializing hard drives con necte...

Page 5: ...es to store and retrieve data faster and more efficiently 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 window as a drive Once you have made your name and partition choices click OK Figure 12 7 When ...

Page 6: ...d to the Tempo ATA100 to better match your legacy Macintosh bus and processing limitations 1 Click on the Apple Menu Control Panels and select Tempo AV Tool the Tempo AV Tool control panel window will open Figure 13 2 Click on a radio button to make your selection then close the window Note If your initial selection does not remedy your playback issue try other settings on the list until all optio...

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