Section 5 Hard Disk Utility - American Megatrends Enterprise-II User Manual

Section 5
Hard Disk Utility
AMIBIOS includes three hard disk
utilities:
Utility
Hard Disk Format Performs a low level format of the
hard drive(s). Read the system or
hard disk drive documentation to find
out if the hard disk has been
preformatted.
Auto Interleave Determines the optimum interleave
factor and then performs a low level
format of the hard disk drive.
Media Analysis Analyzes each hard disk drive track
to determine whether it is usable.
The track is labeled bad if unusable.
The hard disk utility error messages are
described on page 86.
These routines work on drives that use the
MFM, RLL, ARLL, or ESDI data recording
techniques. They do not work on IDE or
SCSI Disk Drives.
AMIBIOS Hard Disk Utilities destroy all hard disk data. Back up the
data on the hard disk before running this utility.
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