Sonnet Technologies Tempo RAID133 ATA Hardware RAID Controller Card - Manual (Page 5)

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Quick Start Guide for Tempo RAID133
6. Recheck the cable connections; make sure all cables are properly
connected to the Tempo RAID133 and the hard drives.
7. Close the computer and carefully replace its case cover; be very
careful not to crimp the cables.
8. Turn on your computer.
9. Open Drive Setup again. You will see <not mounted> instead of
<not initialized> for each volume (pair of hard drives) connected
to the Tempo RAID133 (Figure 9).
10. At this point, you may optionally choose to partition each RAID
volume to create 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, click Initialize… to initialize each of the unmount-
ed volumes.
11. Name each of the volumes (or “virtual” drives) once they have
been initialized; each volume will appear on the desktop as “vir-
tual” drives (Figure 10). Your drives are now ready for use.
Drive Formatting: Mac OS X
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) hard
drives connected to the Tempo RAID133 using Disk Utility under Mac
OS X Version 10.3; the process under Version 10.2 (and 10.1) is very
similar. The drive formatting utility is located in the Utilities folder
(within the Applications folder) on your Mac OS X volume.
1. Turn on your computer.
2. During the boot process under Mac OS X, you may see an infor-
mation window appear stating “You have inserted a disk contain-
ing no volumes that Mac OS X can read.” If this message appears,
click the Initialize… button to launch Disk Utility (Figure 11).
Support Note: The Tempo RAID133 creates one striped vol-
ume for each pair of hard drives installed—one pair of drives
creates one volume, two pairs of drives create two volumes.
Figure 9
Figure 11
Figure 10