Sonnet Technologies Tempo Trio PCI Adapter Combo Card (Mac) - Manual (Page 4)

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Hardware Installation Steps
Figure 7
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12. Attach the Ultra ATA cables’ host (blue) connectors to the Tempo Trio
card.
13. Check the cable connections; make sure all cables are properly
connected to the Tempo Trio and the hard drives.
14. Close your computer and carefully replace its cover; be very careful not to
crimp the cables.
Drive Formatting Steps
Drive Formatting—Mac OS 8.0 through OS 9.x
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) hard drives con-
nected to the Tempo Trio using Apple Drive Setup under Mac OS 8.0–9.x. The
Drive Setup application is installed during the Mac OS installation process and
is usually located in the Utilities folder on the hard drive containing your active
System Folder. If you wish to format your drives with Disk Utility under Mac
OS X, please skip to the next section.
1. Turn on your computer.
2. Open Drive Setup (Figure 7).
3. At this point, you may optionally choose to partition each drive to cre-
ate smaller “virtual” drives to store and retrieve data faster and more effi -
ciently; in the Drive Setup menu bar, select Functions: Volume Settings…
Partition, and set up the partitions. When ready, select the drive listed as
<not initialized>, then click Initialize… to format each of the unmounted
drives (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).
WARNING: Hard drives attached to the Tempo Trio will not mount
(appear on the desktop) until they have been formatted; this includes
drives with data on them, previously used in other computers. Please be aware
that formatting a drive erases any data present.
Support Note: If your computer has an original internal SCSI hard disk
drive, and you disconnect it when you install the Tempo Trio and one or
more drives, you must terminate the SCSI chain properly; installation of a
SCSI terminator connector may be required. Failure to properly terminate
any SCSI chain may result in system freezes and errors. Consult your computer’s
user guide or a qualified technician for more information.
Support Note: IDE hard drives attached to the Tempo Trio will register
as SCSI devices to the computer under Mac OS versions prior to OS X.
For example, in Figure 7 the newly installed hard drive appears as <not initial-
ized> under Volume Name(s) and SCSI under Type.