Formatting Physical Drives - Intergraph InterRAID-8e Hardware User's Manual

Formatting Physical Drives

Choose the Format option from the Management menu to low-level format one or more
physical drives. A physical drive can be formatted if it is not part of a configuration and is
in a Ready state. Since most SCSI drives are factory formatted, do this step only if the drive
has an excessive number of media errors.
You can format the physical drives in two ways:
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Batch Formatting
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Individual Formatting
To use batch formatting:
1. Choose Format from the Management menu. A device selection menu displays,
showing the devices connected to the current controller:
2. Press the arrow keys to highlight all drives. Press the spacebar to select the highlighted
physical drive for formatting. The indicators for selected drives flashes.
3. When you are finished selecting physical drives, press
confirmation prompt. The indicators for the selected drives changes to FRMT[number],
where [number] reflects the order of drive selection. Formatting may take some time,
depending on the number of drives you have selected and the drive capacities.
4. When formatting is complete, press any key to continue. Press
Management menu.
To use individual formatting:
1. Choose Objects from the Management menu. Choose the Physical Drive option from
the Objects menu. A device selection window displays showing the devices connected to
the current controller:
and choose Yes at the
F10
to return to the
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