Technical Notes:
(1) Support for 10 drives requires the use of drive enclosures employing port multipliers (like Sonnet's Fusion D500P, Fusion D400Q, or Fusion R400P). When using an enclosure without a port multiplier, Tempo SATA E2P will support 2 drives.
(2) SATA drive hot swapping is not supported in a desktop or server PC running Windows XP, Server 2003 or Vista. A SATA drive appears to the system as a not-removable hard drive and there is no mechanism in Windows to prepare the drive for removal.
(3) Sonnet Tempo cards are compatible with most external SATA storage. However, external hard drives with USB 2.0/eSATA dual interface based on the Oxford Semiconductor OXU931DS storage controller chip may not be compatible with Mac OS X when connected via SATA. Known issues are kernel panics occurring when the drive is connected, or the drive not being recognized by the operating system.
Summary of external SATA storage
| • Storage with eSATA alone
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Compatible |
| • Storage with triple interfaces |
Compatible |
| • Storage with eSATA plus Firewire 400 and/or 800 |
Compatible |
| • Storage with port multiplier support (multiple drives) |
Compatible |
| • Storage with RAID 0, 1, or 5 (multiple drives) |
Compatible |
| • Storage with eSATA plus USB (based on JMicron 20366) |
Compatible |
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these compatible drives include, but are not limited to: |
not compatible |
| - OWC Mercury On-the-Go USB 2.0/eSATA 2.5" portable |
| • Storage with eSATA plus USB (based on Oxford OXU931DS) |
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these incompatible drives include, but are not limited to:
- Western Digital My Book™ Premium ES Edition™
- Seagate Technology FreeAgent™ Pro
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(4) Not compatible with Mac Pro (Early 2009), nor with slot 2 (PCIe 2.0 slot) in Mac Pro (Early 2008).
(5) Only Tempo SATA E2P with serial numbers starting with A, B, or D compatible; Tempo SATA E2P with serial numbers starting with C are not compatible in Power Mac G5. Revision D shipping Oct. 1, 2009. |