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Tempo 100 card not for formatted drives??
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Hey 'Yall,
Does anyone know a workaround for a Sonnet Tempo ATA/100 card requiring that you format a drive with the card? I can't get the PCI card to "see" or mount my existing "in use" 40GB Maxtor ATA/100 drive, and it's got 6 gig's of data on it. The on-board ATA works fine with the drive, but I wanted to exploit the new speed of this drive, and I don't have an easy way of backing up all the data, other than burning about 10 CD-R's! Their web site said nothing about this little thrill. It's basically a card built to plug into a blank brand new out of the box drive, but not for existing drives.
What a PITA.
Thanks!
Brian
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Originally posted by TackDriver:
<STRONG>Hey 'Yall,
Does anyone know a workaround for a Sonnet Tempo ATA/100 card requiring that you format a drive with the card? I can't get the PCI card to "see" or mount my existing "in use" 40GB Maxtor ATA/100 drive, and it's got 6 gig's of data on it. The on-board ATA works fine with the drive, but I wanted to exploit the new speed of this drive, and I don't have an easy way of backing up all the data, other than burning about 10 CD-R's! Their web site said nothing about this little thrill. It's basically a card built to plug into a blank brand new out of the box drive, but not for existing drives.
What a PITA.
Thanks!
Brian</STRONG>
Brian, did you call them yet and ask them?
They're supposed to have pretty good phone support.
Does the Manual that came with the card say anything about this?
I know I set up one of their ata/66 cards for a friend, but I can't remember if we had to format it first or not.
Victor Marks
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You have to format. The Sonnet cards actually make the computer think the drive is SCSI, not ATA. You have no choice here.
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It's probably basically the same as my Turbomax card. As Paul S said, the computer sees it as SCSI, and the drives are formatted differently. You have to format a drive before it will work with the card, and you would have to format the drive again to get it to work with the built-in IDE.
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