D Formatting Physical Drives; Media Errors - HP P3410A - NetRAID 1M RAID Controller User Manual

Chapter 4
1. Choose Initialize from the HP NetRAID Express Tools Management
menu. A list of the current logical drives appears.
2. Press the arrow keys to highlight the drives you want to initialize. Press the
Spacebar to select the highlighted logical drive for initialization. Press F2
to select/deselect all logical drives.
3. When you finish selecting logical drives, press F10 and choose Yes at the
confirmation prompt. Initialization progress is displayed for each drive.
4. When initialization is complete, press any key to continue. Press Esc to
return to the Tools Management menu.
Individual Initialization
To initialize logical drives by using the individual initialization procedure, follow
these steps:
1. Choose Objects from the HP NetRAID Express Tools Management menu.
Choose Logical Drive from the Objects menu.
2. Select the logical drive to be initialized.
3. Choose Initialize from the action menu. The progress of the initialization
appears as a bar graph.
4. When initialization completes, press any key to return to the previous
menu.

D Formatting Physical Drives

Since most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, this step is
usually not necessary. Usually, you must format a disk only if:
The disk drive was not low-level formatted at the factory.
There is an excessive number of media errors detected on the disk drive.
NOTE Formatting a physical drive deletes all information on the disk.

Media Errors

Check the Physical Drive Information window for the drive to be formatted. You
can view this window by following these steps:
1. Choose Objects from the Management menu.
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