HP AH226A HP 8 Internal Port SAS Controller and HP Multi-Port Internal SAS Con - Page 26

Formatting, Verifying, Advanced Adapter Properties Screen

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Percent Complete Graphical status bar display that indicates the current relative percentage complete of the operation. Formatting On the Device Format screen, if enabled, a low-level formatting on a disk drive is allowed. Low-level formatting will completely and irreversibly erase all data on the drive. Press F to begin the format CAUTION: Once format has begun it cannot be stopped or cancelled NOTE: Formatting will default the drive to a 512-byte sector size even if the drive had previously been formatted to another sector size. Verifying On the Verify screen you can verify of all sectors on the device, and if needed, reassign defective Logical Block Addresses (LBAs). Press Enter to start the verification. Advanced Adapter Properties Screen To access the Advanced Adapter Properties screen, highlight the Advanced Adapter Properties field on the Adapter Properties Screen and press Enter. A screen similar to the following appears: Information fields on the Advanced Adapter Properties screen are as follows: IRQ Indicates the Interrupt Request Line used by the adapter. This is assigned by the system BIOS. NVM Indicates whether the adapter has nonvolatile memory (NVM), which is used to store configuration settings. Chip Revision ID Indicates the revision ID of this adapter. CHS Mapping Specifies how the Cylinder Head Sector (CHS) is mapped on a disk that does not have existing CHS information: SCSI Plug and Play Mapping, or Alternate CHS Mapping 26 Configuring the Controller Offline

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Percent Complete
Graphical status bar display that indicates the current relative
percentage complete of the operation.
Formatting
On the Device Format screen, if enabled, a low-level formatting on a disk drive is allowed.
Low-level formatting will completely and irreversibly erase all data on the drive. Press
F
to begin
the format
CAUTION:
Once format has begun it cannot be stopped or cancelled
NOTE:
Formatting will default the drive to a 512-byte sector size even if the drive had previously
been formatted to another sector size.
Verifying
On the Verify screen you can verify of all sectors on the device, and if needed, reassign defective
Logical Block Addresses (LBAs). Press
Enter
to start the verification.
Advanced Adapter Properties Screen
To access the Advanced Adapter Properties screen, highlight the Advanced Adapter Properties
field on the Adapter Properties Screen and press
Enter
. A screen similar to the following appears:
Information fields on the Advanced Adapter Properties screen are as follows:
IRQ
Indicates the Interrupt Request Line used by the adapter. This is
assigned by the system BIOS.
NVM
Indicates whether the adapter has nonvolatile memory (NVM),
which is used to store configuration settings.
Chip Revision ID
Indicates the revision ID of this adapter.
CHS Mapping
Specifies how the Cylinder Head Sector (CHS) is mapped on a
disk that does not have existing CHS information: SCSI Plug and
Play Mapping, or Alternate CHS Mapping
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