Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 17, 2003 12:56 PM |
wagner |
Yesterday, Sonnet released version 4.0 of the firmware for the Tempo ATA100 card. Has anyone tried this? I have a Tempo card in a 7600 with a NewerTech MaxPowr 300 card. |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 28, 2003 4:58 AM |
mikecwest |
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anyone know if the sonnet firmware will work on the Promise Ultra 100 card? |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 21, 2003 1:09 PM |
gchron |
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I have an 8 MB cache disk and I am waiting for an ATA 133. I purchase it before a week or so. So It is possible to have problems to boot from my disk?? I understand correctly??? It is a 120 MB WD disk. I will test it on my own too and I will post the results in this forum. The shop I purchased it told me that the card will reach my country in a week or so. They did not have it but I think that I will have it next week. I hope that I will not be dissapointed. |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 20, 2003 2:48 AM |
chibi_delenn |
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Marcush, The boot problem, according to Sonnet (take this with a grain of salt, or an entire cannister of Morton's), is the 8 MB Cache, especially on the WD SE HDs. But if an 8 MB SE 120 GB can boot just fine on a Tempo Trio using firmware 4.0 (for <137 GB HDs), then it may indeed be the >137 GB factor. BLAH. Stupid OF limitations. Your card is ATA/100, and isn't a multifunction card like the Trio is. It may well only truly affect the Trio. Meh. Twooley, I installed OS X 10.2 on my 40 GB Seagate Slowinator HD (it's now slow slow, but slower than the 200 GB SE HD is), and it boots great off that. I cloned it to the 200 GB SE HD, and even blessed it with the Bless OldWorld Disk option in CCC, but that didn't work. I even reinstalled BootX/Extensions in XPF in 9, and THAT didn't work. I can boot 9 successfully off ANY partition on the 200 GB. I have the partitions, in order of first to last on the 200 GB as follows: 7.5 GB (Target HD), 5 GB (Defiant), 25 GB (Deep Space Nine), 123 GB (Babylon 5). Even on the Target HD, which is the first partition, well within the 8 GB limit, OS X refuses to boot at all. I can't even get past OF. B to the G. I just want fast OS X HD aXXXion damnit. |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 19, 2003 8:38 PM |
marcush |
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Chibi_delenn, that is interesting. Are you saying that the boot problem with drives that have an 8MB cache only affects the Trio card or is it supposed to affect all Sonnet ATA cards. I boot from an 80GB WD Special Edition card attached to a Tempo ATA/100 card. Am I misreading you because I have heard mention of this but did not heed it because I'm not having any problems. |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 19, 2003 2:41 PM |
twoolley |
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chibi_delenn- Thank you for accurately describing the various Sonnet Tempo updates for these guys! I was about to do the same myself since I know it can be confusing on Sonnet's site. I have a PowerTower Pro, Sonnet G4 800, Radeon 7000, and Tempo Trio with a WD 120GB SE drive which has the 8 MB cache. I am running OS 10.2.6 and updated the Tempo Trio with firmware 4.0. I've had no problems booting OS X with this configuration. I have always been able to install and boot OS X from an 8GB partition on my 120GB SE without problems. In fact I have cloned OS 10.2.6 to a 50MB parition on the same drive and can boot OS X just fine with this backup as well. Perhaps the problem is with drives over 137GB, not the 8 MB cache. |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 19, 2003 1:06 PM |
chibi_delenn |
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There are two 4.0 firmwares on Sonnet's site. One is for the Tempo ATA/100 series, the other is for the Tempo ATA/133, Tempo HD, and Tempo Trio cards. Make sure you choose the one that matches your specific card model. The 4.5 firmware is for the Tempo ATA/133, Tempo HD, and Tempo Trio when being used with HDs that are >137 GB in size. If you do not have a HD that is larger than 120 GB, DO NOT USE THIS FIRMWARE. I own a Tempo Trio, as it gave me USB (2.0 under X, tho I never use that speed), Firewire, and ATA/133 HD support in a single slot. This not only freed up a slot for a future audio card, but also let my mac run cooler than before. Unfortunately, neither the 4.0 firmware nor the 4.5 firmware allow OS X too boot off any HD with an 8 MB Cache buffer, despite Sonnet's claims that this issue is fixed. This is a real shame since I was hoping I would be able to boot OS X 10.2 off my WD 200 GB SE HD (8 MB Cache version) and gain a very noticeable speed boost. Oh well. At least I can still boot 10.2 off the 40 GB, though it is a bit slower than the 200 GB HD would be. |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 18, 2003 3:24 PM |
wagner |
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The only firmware version 4.5 that I can find is for the ATA133 card. I believe the latest version for the ATA100 card, which is the one that I have, is 4.0. Frankly, for old PCI macs such as my 7600, I don't think there is any point in ATA133. I'm not even sure if ATA100 is any improvement over ATA66 for these macs. |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.5 |
May, 18, 2003 11:22 AM |
nick.ashton |
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Sonnet's web site says about the 4.5 update :- "Unless you intend to connect large drives to your Tempo card, we strongly suggest you do not use this software." Sounds like they suspect there may be problems, so unless you have large drives to support you're probably better off sticking with V4.0 |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 18, 2003 5:39 AM |
gchron |
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I went to sonnet and show that there is a newer version 4.5 that supports the large hard disks. Why not to use this one instead of the 4.0??? I do not have the card but I purchased it and what it to reach me :-) As I have seen this I do not know what to use. Thanks |
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RE: Sonnet Tempo ATA100 firmware 4.0? |
May, 17, 2003 10:07 PM |
wagner |
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Well, I went ahead and tried it. It seems to work so far, but, as Sonnet says on their web page, volumes on drives attached to this card do not show up in Apple System Profiler. I'm using Mac OS X 10.2.6, and I just installed the Sonnet Tune-Up (1.2.6?). So now my L2 cache shows up as 1 MB in ASP, and not 256 K. |
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