Sonnet Technologies Qio E3 - Manual (Page 16)

Chapter 8 – Using Drives Connected via eSATA
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Mac Users: Connecting/Disconnecting Drives
• Mac OS X users may hot-plug and hot-swap drives connected
to the Qio E3
• Before disconnecting cables from the Qio E3 or attached
drives, eject any mounted drive or volume by dragging its icon
to the Eject icon in the Dock, or clicking its Eject button in a
Finder window; otherwise, data on the connected drives may
be corrupted
Mac Users: Formatting Drives
Qio E3 supports one or two single-drive enclosures, or up to eight
drives in two enclosures with hardware RAID controllers. Use
Disk Utility (found in the Utilities folder within the Applications
folder) to set up connected drives for use
Windows Users: Connecting/Disconnecting Drives
• Always shut down your computer and drives before
disconnecting the drives or their cables from the Qio E3
• Before disconnecting eSATA cables from the Qio E3 or
attached drives, you must shut down your computer
Windows Users: Formatting Drives
Qio E3 supports one or two single-drive enclosures, or up to
eight drives in enclosures with a hardware RAID controller. If
you intend to format drives connected to the Tempo card using
Windows drive formatting tools (Disk Management), you may
locate the information by using “format volume”, and “create
striped volume” as search items in Windows Help