Adaptec 29320A-R User Guide - Page 60

SCSI Disk Utilities, Verify Disk Media, Format Disk

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Configuring the Adaptec SCSI Card with SCSISelect To use SCSISelect to format or verify a disk: 1 Start SCSISelect. See Starting SCSISelect on page 3-3. SCSISelect detects all Adaptec SCSI cards and displays the model number, channel letter, slot number, and PCI address for each card and channel. 2 Select the SCSI card and channel that has the devices you want to format or verify. The Options menu appears. 3 Select SCSI Disk Utilities. SCSISelect scans the SCSI bus and displays a list of all the SCSI IDs and the devices assigned to each ID. 4 From the list of SCSI devices, select the device you want to format or verify. 5 If the device has multiple logical units, and multiple LUN support is enabled for that device, a menu of LUNs appears. Select the LUN of the unit you want to format or verify. A small menu appears. 6 Select Verify Disk Media or Format Disk. s If you select Verify Disk Media, SCSISelect notifies you of bad blocks and prompts you to reassign them. Select Yes to reassign the bad blocks or No to leave them as is. You can press Esc at any time to abort verification. s If you select Format Disk, a prompt appears, asking you to confirm that you want to format the disk. Select Yes to start formatting the disk, or No to cancel formatting. 3-19

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Configuring the Adaptec SCSI Card with SCSISelect
To use SCSI
Select
to format or verify a disk:
1
Start SCSI
Select
. See
Starting SCSISelect
on page 3-3
.
SCSI
Select
detects all Adaptec SCSI cards and displays the
model number, channel letter, slot number, and PCI address for
each card and channel.
2
Select the SCSI card and channel that has the devices you want
to format or verify. The Options menu appears.
3
Select
SCSI Disk Utilities
. SCSI
Select
scans the SCSI bus and
displays a list of all the SCSI IDs and the devices assigned to
each ID.
4
From the list of SCSI devices, select the device you want to
format or verify.
5
If the device has multiple logical units, and multiple LUN
support is enabled for that device, a menu of LUNs appears.
Select the LUN of the unit you want to format or verify. A small
menu appears.
6
Select
Verify Disk Media
or
Format Disk
.
If you select
Verify Disk Media
, SCSI
Select
notifies you of
bad blocks and prompts you to reassign them. Select
Yes
to
reassign the bad blocks or
No
to leave them as is. You can
press
Esc
at any time to abort verification.
If you select
Format Disk
, a prompt appears, asking you to
confirm that you want to format the disk. Select
Yes
to start
formatting the disk, or
No
to cancel formatting.