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SCSI Disk Utilities, Verify Disk Media, Format Disk

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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. If the device has multiple logical units, and multiple LUN support is enabled for that device, a menu of LUNs appears. 5. 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, 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 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. Back to Contents Page

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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.
If the device has multiple logical units, and multiple LUN support is enabled for that device, a menu of LUNs appears.
5. 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
, 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.
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.
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