Format Menu - Intergraph InterRAID-8e Hardware User's Manual

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The following displays:
-------------- Channel x ----------------
Terminate High 8 Bits
Terminate Wide Channel
Disable Termination
Set PowerOn Defaults
Ultra SCSI = DISABLED
The following table describes the SCSI Channel options.
Option
Terminate
High 8 Bits
Terminate
Wide Channel
Disable
Termination
Set PowerOn
Defaults
Ultra SCSI

Format Menu

Choose Format from the Management menu to low-level format one or more physical drives.
WARNING Formatting a hard drive destroys all data on the drive.
Since most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, this step is usually not
necessary. You must format a disk only if one of the following applies:
u
The disk drive was not low-level formatted at the factory.
u
There are an excessive number of media errors detected on the disk drive.
You do not need to use the Format option to erase existing information on your SCSI disks,
such as a DOS partition. That information is erased when you initialize the logical drive(s).
Description
Choose this option to enable termination on the selected channel for the
upper eight bits and disable termination on the MegaRAID controller for
the lower eight bits. This setting is required if the selected SCSI channel
is terminated with 8-bit devices at both ends.
Choose this option to enable wide channel termination for the selected
channel. This is required if the MegaRAID controller is at one end of the
SCSI bus for the selected channel.
Choose this option to disable termination on the MegaRAID controller for
the selected channel. This option should be used if the selected SCSI
channel is terminated with Wide devices at both ends.
Choose this option to have the MegaRAID controller examine its SCSI
channels and to set its termination automatically.
Choose this option to enable or disable Ultra SCSI. Default is disabled.