HP Surestore Disk Array 12h - And FC60 System Administrator Manual page 178

Using the ARDIAG Offline Diagnostic on MPE
Operational Command Descriptions
Example 2: Internal disk drive
ARDIAG> TESTLEVEL 1
ARDIAG> FORMAT
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* FORMAT cannot continue without a loss of redundancy on the disk array
selected! Failure of a disk before redundancy is restored will result in
DATA LOSS. Although continuation of this FORMAT will NOT result in
direct data loss, it may take several hours before redundancy is restored
and a disk failure can be tolerated without data loss.
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Do you want to continue (y/[n])? y
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* The following FORMAT will require approximately ONE HOUR to complete.
During this period you will be unable to perform any other diagnostic
activities.
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Do you want to continue (y/[n])? y
FORMATTING...
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ARDIAG>
Additional notes:
Any problems detected by the FORMAT command will be displayed with an appropriate error
message and a prefix of ERROR, INVALID or FAILED.
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Internal Disk Drive FORMAT
W A R N I N G !
N O T I C E
FORMAT Successfully Completed
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