CHAPTER 5: Driver Installation
5.1.5THE ASPI PARTITION & FORMAT UTILITY
INIFDISK.EXE is a DOS ASPI partition-and-format utility. It requires the ASPIA100.SYS and INIDISK.SYS drivers to be loaded in order for it to function properly. INIFDISK.EXE is installed by the DOSSETUP program. It can partition and format any SCSI storage device that is not being controlled by the BIOS; this includes SCSI hard disks, magneto-optical drives, and removable-media devices.
When you run INIFDISK, its initial screen will have two windows. The top window will list all of the SCSI devices installed in the system; you can use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight a particular device. The bottom window will display information about the device that is currently highlighted in the top window.
Once you select a storage device, INIFDISK will display a second two-part screen. Its top window will list all of the device’s logical drives or volumes, physical partitions, etc. Before you can erase existing physical partitions on a device, you have to remove all of their logical divisions; when you select a device element (drive, volume, partition, etc.), the bottom window will show the commands for everything it is currently possible to do with that element, and will explain why certain things are not yet possible to do.
