Section 6 Hard Disk Utility - American Megatrends Baby Voyager User Manual

Section 6
Hard Disk Utility
The AMI BIOS includes three hard disk utilities:
Utility
Hard Disk Performs a low level format of the
Format 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.
Media Analyzes each hard disk drive track
Analysis to determine whether it is usable.
The track is marked bad if unusable.
Hard Disk Explanations of all error messages
Utility Error that can be generated by the Hard
Messages Disk Utilities
These routines work on drives that use the MFM, RLL, ARLL, or ESDI
data recording techniques. They do not work on IDE or SCSI drives.
The AMI BIOS Hard Disk Utilities destroys all
hard disk data. Back up the data on the hard
disk before running these programs.
Purpose
Warning
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