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Quick Start Guide for Tempo-X eSATA 4+4
Drive Formatting—Individual Drives (continued)
7. When the Partition Disk window appears, click the Partition button
(Figure 7). If necessary, repeat steps 3–6 to partition any other drives con
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nected to the Tempo-X card. When partitioning and formatting are com
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plete, close the Disk Utility application; you can now use your drive(s).
Drive Formatting—RAID Arrays
This section describes the process of formatting (initializing) multiple hard
drives connected to the Tempo-X eSATA 4+4 to create a RAID 0 (striped) array
using Disk Utility under Mac OS X Version 10.3; the process under Versions
10.4 and 10.2 are similar. If you choose to do so, you may format your drives
using SoftRAID 3.1 or later; refer to that product’s documentation for instruc
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tions.
1. Turn on your computer. During startup, your computer may display a
message(s) referring to unreadable volumes; click Initialize… to launch
Disk Utility (Figure 8)
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2. If it is not already open, launch Disk Utility (Figure 9). Note that all
attached drives appear in the information window, regardless of being for
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matted or not.
Figure 7
Figure 8
Figure 9
Support Note: See page 8 for port identification and information on
Tempo-X eSATA 4+4’s status LEDs.
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