Sonnet Technologies Tempo Trio PCI Adapter Combo Card (Mac) - Manual (Page 5)

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Drive Formatting Steps
Figure 10
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Drive Formatting—Mac OS X
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) hard drives con-
nected to the Tempo Trio using Disk Utility under Mac OS X Version 10.1; the
process under Versions 10.2 and 10.3 is similar. The drive formatting utility
is installed during Mac OS X installation and is located in the Utilities folder
(within the Applications folder) on your OS X volume.
1. Turn on your computer.
2. During the boot process under Mac OS X, you may see an information
window appear stating “You have inserted a disk containing no volumes
that Mac OS X can read.” If this message appears, click the Initialize… but-
ton to launch Disk Utility (Figure 9).
3. If you have not already done so, open Disk Utility (Figure 10). Note that
all attached drives appear in the Information window, regardless of being
formatted or not.
4. Select the drive you want to format by single-clicking the drive symbol or
the “name” of the drive (Figure 10). In the Information window, the drive
capacity and Connection ID (Master or Slave) is listed.
5. Click on the Partition tab (Figure 11). When the Partition window
appears, click on the drop down menu beneath “Volume Scheme:” and
select a number of partitions for the volume; you may optionally choose
to partition each drive to create two or more smaller “virtual” drives to
store and retrieve data faster and more effi ciently. For drives larger than 2
GB, you should format them as Mac OS Extended to take full advantage
of their storage capacity. If you intend to use Mac OS 9.x, check the Install
Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers check box. Click OK (or Partition if you are using
Mac OS X Version 10.2).
Support Note: IDE hard drives attached to the Tempo Trio will register
as ATA devices to the computer under Mac OS X. For example, in
Figure 10, the Connection Bus for the newly installed hard drive is listed as ATA.
Figure 9