Adaptec 1863700 User Reference - Page 16

Adaptec SCSI Card 29160LP User's Reference Using the Adaptec SCSI Card 29160LP and SCSI Devices This section provides useful information on using the Adaptec SCSI Card 29160LP and your SCSI devices. For information about a specific device, refer to the documentation for that device. Using SCSI Devices SCSI Hard Disk Drives I If you connect a SCSI hard disk drive to the Adaptec SCSI Card 29160LP that was previously connected to a different SCSI card, you may need to low-level format the drive before you can use it. This is due to the fact that different SCSI cards sometimes use dissimilar methods of calculating drive capacity. Back up the data on the drive before you move it! (See Using SCSI Disk Utilities on page 21 for information on using the SCSISelect format utility.) Caution: A low-level format destroys all data on the drive. Be sure to back up the data before performing a low-level format. I Every SCSI hard disk drive must be physically low-level formatted, partitioned, and logically formatted before it can be used to store data. Most SCSI drives are pre-formatted at the factory. If your SCSI hard disk drive has not been pre-formatted at the factory, and if your computer is running under DOS, Windows 3.x, or Windows 95/98, you can format the disk with the DOS FDISK and FORMAT commands. (See the DOS and Windows documentation for more information.) To format SCSI hard disk drives running under other operating systems, see the operating system documentation. 10