Formatting And Verifying Disk Drives; Viewing The Event Log - Adaptec SAS/SATA/SCSI RAID Controllers Installation And User Manual

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.)
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a disk drive.
To format or verify a disk drive:
Start the ARC utility (see
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Select the controller you want, then press Enter.
2
Select Disk Utilities.
3
Select the disk drive you want, then press Enter.
4
Select Format Disk or Verify Disk Media.
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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:
Start the ARC utility (see
1
Select the controller you want, then press Enter.
2
When the ARC utility menu appears, then press Ctrl+P.
3
Select Controller Log Information, then press Enter.
4
The current event log opens.
Appendix C: Using the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility
Before you format a disk drive, back up all data. Formatting destroys all data on
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