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Quick Start Guide for Tempo SATA E4i

You Should Have

The following items should be included in your product package:

• One Tempo SATA E4i card
•  One Serial ATA data cable
• One Sonnet Software CD

The following items may be required (sold separately):   

• Medium Phillips screwdriver
•  One or more Serial ATA data cables
•  Internal drive mounting hardware
•  One or more legacy (4-pin) power cable Y-adapters
•  One or more legacy to Serial ATA (4-pin to 15-pin) power cable 

adapters

•  One or more Ultra ATA to Serial ATA adapters (only used to support 

parallel ATA drives)

System Requirements

Tempo SATA E4i requires the following in order to operate in your 
system:
• One available PCI Express (PCIe) x4 slot*
•  Mac OS

®

 X Version 10.3 or later, Windows

®

 7, Windows Vista

®

, or 

Windows XP with SP2 installed**

*   x1 slot compatible, but with reduced performance
**  Creating RAID volumes under Windows requires dynamic disk storage, a 

formatting option available with Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 

2003 SP1, Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate (32- and 64-bit 

versions), Windows Vista Enterprise or Ultimate (32- and 64-bit versions), or 

Windows XP Professional (32- and 64-bit versions).  

In order to create RAID volumes larger than 2TB, you must do one of the 

following: Span (link together in a virtual chain) the volumes, and then 

format them as NTFS. -

OR

- Use GPT formatting. Note that drives and 

volumes with GPT formatting are not visible to any version of Windows XP 

Professional, nor to the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2003 SP1.

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.
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Sonnet Technologies, Inc., Irvine, California USA • Tel: 1-949-587-3500 Fax: 1-949-457-6349 

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 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. Also, avoid touching 
the logic board and any of its components.

TEMPO

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              Serial ATA Host Controller for PCI Express® Slot

Summary of Contents for TEMPO SATA E4i

Page 1: ...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 4 p m Pacific Time Customer Service Phone 1 949 472 27...

Page 2: ...the Tempo card plug the straight connector into the Tempo card 3 Locate the connector block on your drive Some Serial ATA drives are equipped with both a legacy 4 pin power connector and a Serial ATA 15 pin power connector Figure 3 Depending on your computer you may need to use 4 pin to 15 pin power adapter cables Support Note Technical knowledge may be required to gain access to the computer s ex...

Page 3: ...e a Power Mac G5 user your card installation is complete skip to page 5 for drive formatting instructions If you are a Windows user go to the next panel for driver installation instructions Support Note for Mac Users Power Mac G5 users should install the Tempo card either into slot 2 or 4 Windows 7 Driver Installation This section describes the installation of drivers to support the Tempo SATA E4i...

Page 4: ...e Manager window under Windows Vista Windows XP Professional Driver Installation This section describes the installation of drivers to support the Tempo SATA E4i in systems running Windows XP Professional 1 Turn on your computer during 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 Click ...

Page 5: ... will use to create your striped RAID set and then drag them into the disk field Figure 5 Be careful NOT to accidentally drag in a drive you don t want included in the RAID 4 From the drop down menus select the volume format and the RAID scheme Striped RAID Set and then type in the name for your RAID volume Figure 5 5 Click the Options button From the drop down menu select a RAID block size Figure...

Page 6: ...ched to the Tempo card may be identified in the information window by their custom icon with the Sonnet S logo 3 Select one of the drives you want to format by clicking the drive symbol or the name of the drive a set of tabs will appear in the right pane Click the Partition tab and then click on the drop down menu beneath Volume Scheme to select a number of partitions for the volume you may option...

Page 7: ...lick Computer Management 4 In the Computer Management window click Disk Management under Storage to launch the Disk Management application 5 If an Initialize Disk window appears or if disks are described as not initialized select a partition style for the attached drive s and then click OK the drive will be initialized Figure 10 Repeat as necessary with other drives attached to the Tempo card 6 Ri...

Page 8: ...empo SATA E4i About Tempo SATA E4i s Ports 1 Each SATA connector on the Tempo card is assigned a channel number that may be helpful if you need to diagnose any issues Figure 12 Figure 12 channel 1 channel 0 channel 3 channel 2 ...

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