Adaptec 2093500 User Guide - Page 82
Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives, Viewing the Event Log, Enter, Disk Utilities, Format Disk
View all Adaptec 2093500 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals |
Page 82 highlights
Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Controller Utility ● 82 Formatting and Verifying Disk Drives You can use the disk utilities to low-level format or verify your disk drives. (New disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory and do not need to be low-level formatted again.) ! Caution: Before you format a disk drive, back up all data. Formatting destroys all data on a disk drive. To format or verify a disk drive: 1 Start the Adaptec RAID Controller utility (see page 76). 2 Select the controller you want, press Enter. 3 Select Disk Utilities. 4 Select the disk drive you want, then press Enter. 5 Select Format Disk or Verify Disk Media. Viewing the Event Log The BIOS-based event log records all firmware events, such as configuration changes, array creation, and boot activity. Some events are not stored indefinitely-the event log is cleared of any non-persistent events each time you restart your computer; additionally, once the log is full, new events overwrite old events. To view the event log: 1 Start the Adaptec RAID Controller utility (see page 76). 2 Select the controller you want, press Enter. 3 When the Adaptec RAID Controller utility menu appears, press Ctrl+P. 4 Select Controller Log Information, then press Enter. The current event log opens.