Formatting Media - Dell PowerEdge 1400 User Manual

3-12 User's Guide
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To exit SCSISelect, press <Esc> until a message prompts you to exit. (If you changed
any 78xx series host adapter settings, you are prompted to save the changes before
you exit.) At the prompt, select Y es to exit, and then press any key to reboot the com-
puter. Any changes that you made in SCSISelect take effect after the computer boots.
(You can select No at the prompt if you are not ready to exit SCSISelect.)
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The subsections that follow provide procedures and tips on the following topics:

Formatting media

Using removable media


Verifying status


Using drives that are tested and approved for NetWare


Using the NetWare tape backup utility
   
NetWare's nwconfig.nlm program lets you optionally format a hard-disk drive for use
with NetWare. If you are using SCSI drives, the program allows you to low-level for-
mat several SCSI drives simultaneously. The NetWare format procedure is not the
same as using fdisk or format under DOS.

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The adpu160.ham driver module fully supports removable-media disk drives, includ-
ing magneto-optical drives. Removable media is treated as a standard SCSI hard-disk
drive, with some exceptions:


The driver only recognizes and registers media with 512 bytes per sector.


NetWare allows you to mount or dismount the media and lock or unlock the media.
These removable media options are supported by NetWare's monitor.nlm program.
To set up the removable media, perform the following steps:
1. Load monitor.nlm to display the various options.
2. Select Disk Information.
All system hard-disk drives appear.