Sonnet Tempo 5.09 firmware

I recently picked up a couple more Sonnet Tempo SATA cards. One has the 5.09 firmware version. Seems to work fine but I'm tempted to up grade to 5.13. Then I started wondering if there might be a downside to the upgrade if I was to use the card in a 6500 or 7500.

I would say "If it works, don't break it".
Firmware updates are typically for issue resolution or additional machine/feature support, often at the cost of older model support.....

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    This stinks!! I have around 500GB worth of data locked on that Partition. Anybody else having problems with this card in 10.5??

    For the record... after doing my Leo upgrade, I promptly dragged my 3 SATA drives in to the "do not index" page in the Spotlight prefs, then after waiting well over an hour of letting Spotlight index my boot volume, I issued a Restart. Finder seemed hosed and the machine churned and churned, apparently still trying to complete the indexing. I left it overnight because I was out of steam at 4am. When I woke, it was still spinning, so noticing that the drives had stopped accessing, I did a forced shutdown and then a Safe Boot to force Disk Utility to do its thing. My machine came up fine, and after rebooting normally, I had to drag the SATA drives into the Spotlight ignore pane one more time (they didn't stick because of the hard shutdown I guess), and now all drives are working fine on my system, including the SATAs, which I've done numerous read/write tests on (in Finder). Of note is that a few days ago, before the Leo upgrade, I had updated my Sonnet Tempo E4i firmware to the latest (2.1.2) - not sure wht impact that had, but it couldn't hurt. I'll report back if things go South, but so far, so good on my G5 Quad with the G5 Jive, 3 Maxtor 500GBs, 2 bay internal SATAs, and a bunch of FW drives. I hope you guys get it going also.

  • Apple raid card with Sonnet Tempo SSD problem?

    I am currently using Mac Pro 5.1 (2010)
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    1) Issue with APPLE raid card
    2) problem due to two additional SATA controllers in PCIe rains.
    3) Issue with card configuration (I have to test change the position of cards except APPLE RAID which requires slot 4)
    Does anybody experienced similar problems?

    This:
    > But, when I install Mavericks to 512GB SSD in PCIe slot, installation finishes without problem, but the system NEVER boot up with that drive.
    It is not uncommon to have trouble installing, cloning, or booting from a PCIe card - though the Sonnet Tempo Pro SSD is one of the reliable ones, still, you should install the OS first on SATA II normally, then move the SSD to its new home.
    The fact the SSD works on the ODD port - have you asked or looked for firmware update or anything from Sonnet and what they have to say?
    With three PCIe cards to contend with, they may interact - not unheard of - and the USB3 may need drivers first to work?

  • Windows7/Bootcamp on Sonnet-Tempo-SSD-Card over PCIe?

    Hi,
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  • LG GGC-H20L with Sonnet Tempo Sata Pci Card into Powermac G5

    Hello dear Community.
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    Nokiman
    I made sure there was a good 'thunk' as it slotted in to the PCI slot everytime I installed it, I wiggled it to make sure, I applied reasonable pressure to make sure it was seated correctly, etc. I tried everything, short of using a hammer! Still no joy. I have a PCI firewire card which works perfectly in all slots.
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  • Will a Sonnet Tempo-X eSata card work in a 2010 or 2009 Mac Pro?

    Hi Folks,
    I just bought a 2010 refurbed 12 core - very excited!
    I'm going to probably sell my G5 and G4 which are used for video transfer.
    In the G5, I have the Sonnet Tempo-X eSata PCI card 4 x 4 (I think it's PCI-X?) and I'm wondering if that will work in either of the Mac Pros:
    2006 2 x 2.66
    2009 quad 2.66
    or the 2010 12 core 2.66?
    I need a 4 slot eSata solution for the addonics esata enclosure. It's my main capture box.
    Any help or suggestions would be great.
    Cheers,
    Keebler

    Thanks Sir Winston. That's what I was afraid of.
    I think I'll end up just keeping my G5 for the meantime.  A new card is pretty much worth what I could sell the G5 for, but for now, I'll just keep my workflow the same.
    Maybe in the future.

  • Sonnet Tempo Sata E2P driver

    I just installed a new Sonnet Tempo SATA E2P card, but for some reason it's not recognizing the driver. I've tried installing the driver several times, and each time it tells me the install is successful. But when I open System profiler, the PCI card shows up just fine, but under "driver installed" it says "No."
    I've got a Dual-core 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 running OSX (10.5.7), and it's supposed to be compatible. Any ideas?

    What's the first character of the card's serial number? According to Sonnet's website with regard to G5 compatibility: "Only Tempo SATA E2P with serial numbers starting with A or B compatible; Tempo SATA E2P with serial numbers starting with C are not compatible in Power Mac G5."
    If that's not the case, are you trying to install drivers from an installation CD or have you downloaded the latest drivers from Sonnet's website?

  • PCIe SATA Cards for RAID for video: Seritek 2ME4-E vs Sonnet Tempo E4P

    Hey Folks,
    I'm just about to purchase bigger, faster RAID system for my video editing needs. I've already purchased 1TB Barracudas for the drives and I have decided on the Burly dual PM for the enclosure. http://www.burlystorage.com/ccp0-catshow/burlydualpm.html
    The questions is which card? I've had a seritek 2 port card and also their expresscard for years without a problem. But some tests I've seen indicate that the Sonnet is a bit faster. Then again, I know that some people had problems with the firmware at least as recently as last spring.
    What do people say? Hatter and Japamac, I'm hoping to hear from you.

    FirmTek:
    If you would like the ability to support port multiplier enclosures and 3rd party SMART applications, the FirmTek SeriTek/e6G would be my choice for a low cost 2-port 6G controller with these features. This card features hot swap and is also able to hot plug Oxford 936/946 based enclosures without the need for a restart. Installation is easy.
    I use the SeriTek/e6G in the 2009 Mac Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.5. The PCIe 2.0 slots in the 2009 model provide optimized performance. >
    http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-e6g/
    You want a 4x or above card usually, one that has more bandwidth and performance, than those low end 1x 2-port cards that can't drive enough MB/sec to make using multiple drives / multiple enclosures.
    Well, seeing you went with Seagate, not my cup of tea, I would have said WD Black Caviar 2TB drives instead.
    Sonnet 4-port E4P is what I have used but it or its drivers may be an issue, totally unsure.
    PM today is limited by today's drives. When it came out drives were slow by comparison, a mere 75MB/sec while today one drive can shovel 90-125MB/sec or half of what a PM can handle. You only get in real world about 250MB/sec maybe (overhead takes away from that 300MB/sec per port). That means while 6Gb is great, PM enclosures like FirmTek5PM need a new faster PM chip. Again, no idea where that is or when we will see it.
    Maybe you should ask about SAS and be looking at even higher end RAID controllers from Areca perhaps.

  • Drobro S, Sonnet Tempo Express Card 3/4 sata equals kernal panic

    I have tried for the last week to make this work, bought a rad tech express card,it caused my computer and another on that we test it on to KP, then I found a driver that might work, it seemed to then in the middle of the transfer everything stopped and when I removed the express card the gray screen came down, retuned rad tech express card,bought sonnet card as they say on Drobo knowledge base this works, same thing, though I did get an error that said -31 error, something about permissions on files could not be read or written, cannot do anything without KP, updated firmware on DROBO s. I am out of patience, any thoughts?

    2008/09 Unibody Macbook Pros suffer from an epidemic failure of their ExpressCard slot. You will not find any eSATA card using any of the three available chipsets that will work fully reliable in these Macs.
    Blame Apple. I'm onto this for two years now and will get a 2010 MBP replacement soon. According to Other World Computing (OWC) the 2010 models should work (they just put some BIG red crosses over all 2008/09 MBP to mark them incompatible). Once I get the 2010 one I will test it and post results.
    I will also publish my case number once this is through.

  • Sonnet Tempo SATA E4i

    http://www.sonnettech.com/product/temposatae4i.html
    I'd love to hear from some people who have this exact card installed and running in their Quad-core 2.5GHz PowerPC G5. Is it working well? Any problems to report? Are your SATA-300 drive(s) working great thanks to this card? Or what?
    TIA

    Michael
    I think the Sonnet site has firmware updates to
    enable PM on your card.
    http://www.sonnettech.com/downloads/adapter_sw.html
    I might be wrong...
    Andrew
    Dear Andrew,
    The Sonnet E4i was never intended to support port multiplier. That is why it is $100 less expensive than the E4P. The E4P and the E4i both use the same firmware but only the E4P has PM capability. The latest firmware is 2.0 and have it loaded on both cards.
    Michael

  • Sonnet Tempo SATA E4P PCIe problem

    Hi,
    I bought second Sonnet eSATA card from OWC. This time it is E4P PCIe.
    The first one which I own - E2P card (2 ports) works perfectly with my ext. enclosure - the ICY Dock, but the new one - E4P causes system halt.
    The situation looks like that:
    I placed the E4P in the 4th slot in my G5 (before, in that slot I had E2P). I turned up the enclosure (the same which was working fine with E2P) and turned on the computer. Than, during computer startup, every time, the screen become grey with the information that I need to push the Power button for a few seconds and restart. When I turn on the computer at first, and after the enclosure -> system freezes (with no beach ball, just freezes), and I need to do a hard reset. Before iI turned on the enclosure, I can check in the System Profiler that the card is recognized by system.
    This problem I had with the second E4P card. The first one which I bought from OWC about a 3 weeks ago, made the same problems. I thought that the card is damaged, so I sent it back to OWC for a replacement.
    Now, yesterday they sent me a new one (the serial number is different) - but unfortunately - the situation is the same: system freezes after connecting to the powered on enclosure.
    Does anybody have any idea why almost the same card, but with 4 ports instead of 2 in E2P, doesn't work properly?
    Marek.

    Hi,
    +> And you should always check for current firmware.+
    In the System Profiler there is driver ver. 2.1.1 - so it is up to date.
    +> Were you using PM or direct connect with the ICY and are you using that the same way?+
    I use direct connect - the ICY doesn't have a port multiplier. So, with E2P I have two disks RAIDed and the other two not powered on. I use them sometimes as a backup for my other disks (firewire, internal) - but of course I need to reconnect the SATA cables. So, to avoid reconnecting cables from time to time, and use all 4 disks, I bought the 4 ports card.
    So, the connection is identical -> direct, this time 4 cables from card to the enclosure. But nothing works! Both cards are from the same producer, the same cables, the same enclosure - one card is working, the other one freezes the system. Why?
    I wrote an email to Sonnet, I will see if they can help.
    I will try to reset nvram and let you know. (I think tomorrow - I have a lot of work today)
    In G5 there isn't PCI Expansion Slot Utility - this is in MacPro.
    Any other ideas?
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  • Sonnet tempo sata e4p and raid 5

    Hi
    I just bought a tempo fusion 500p and a tempo sata e4p and i thought i was going to be able to configure them as raid 5.... Inside the fusion i have 5 500gb disks and i was hoping that there would be software with the e4p card since it said it was raid 5 compatible. how can i get it to work as raid 5? do i have to buy software or another hardware card? i've spent too much time looking around the forum here and it got me even more confused since most replies here mention that if you get a hardware controller it should be possible....
    what are my options? help would be greatly appreciated...
    a confused and a little dissapointed editor....

    Yes, you are correct. There will be software that will allow you to set up the hardware on the card since the card actually controls the RAID system.
    I would suggest reading up on RAID theory before you take the plunge. RAID 5 will give you redundancy but no performance increase, RAID 0 will give you Performance but no redundancy, then you have RAID 0+1, 3, 50, 6, 60, and so on. Make sure you know what you want before you get to deep into this.
    Look at the bottome of my post and you can see what I'm using. I have that box set up with a RAID 0 on two drives for performance while editing and then I have one drive that is for backups.
    Just another thought.
    K

  • 2006 Mac Pro & EFI Firmware Update 1.2

    Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this...
    Just upgraded to Snow Leopard and was prompted to apply the EFI Firmware Update 1.2... so I did as requested... MP shuts down and I hold down the power button until I see the power light pulse rapidly... I see what looks like the start of an update (w/ the progress bar) but then the MP immediately reboots, returning to the Update application...
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    Some tests of Leopard vs Snow Leopard and 32-bit vs 64-bit
    http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-Performance.html
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    OpenCL synthetic tests (there aren't any apps that tap into this technology)
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  • SSD's which are OK for updating firmware on a Mac?

    I'm looking at a couple SSD's for a MacPro, any thoughts on which are OK with updating firmware on a Mac? Probably better to ask now before I need to..
    Crucial M500 or Samsung 840 Pro?  I'm assuming that OWC's offerings are probably the best for Mac compatiblity, any others?
    thanks in advance.

    Firstly there is a near identical question about setup of just days ago that hopefully you found and looked at in your research.
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    Lloyd's blog is full of tips: http://www.macperformanceguide.com
    Start with what SSD (single) then get into multiple and setup and apps and how they are used, which really might be first thing to ask?
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    Maybe use JBOD to combine two but not in RAID0.
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    Samsung starts mass producing PCIe SSDs with 1400MB/s read speeds
    When the new MacBook Air got the teardown treatment... a new SSD.
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    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5012276
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    From last September, StorageReview article 840 vs 840 Pro - they were my favorite review site for storage for years.
    http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_ssd_840_pro_review
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    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/sandisk-ultra-plus.html
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  • 10.4.10 update and Drives on Sonnet E4i card

    G5 tower w/ dual core 2Ghz chip
    Sonnet Tempo E4i
    Three 750 Seagate Barracuda drives (2 in raid, one single)
    After weeks of use with perfect operation, I went on vacation and was away 2 weeks with the computer shut down. On return I installed Apple 10.4.10 update.
    At first drives had just disappeared. System profiler would see E4i but no drives.
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    Updated firmware on both the drive with 10.4.10 and 10.4.9, and problem still exists.
    Zapped PRAM and disk reappeared momentarily, then computer crashed and would not restart.
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    This problem has happened before with 10.4.8 and earlier updates. Go to your Audio Midi Setup application, and make sure your sound output is set for 44.1 kHz and not something higher. Unfortunately the higher level which is found on SPDIF/Toslink capable Macs as a default is not compatible with many websites sound engines.

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