Adaptec SBC-596, SBC-599 manual Formatter and Partitioner afdisk

4.When the next screen appears, select either Format or Verify (to verify that the disk is free of surface defects), then press Enter.

WARNING: Back up important data before you format the disk device! A low-level format erases all data from the disk.

5.If you select Format, confirm that you want to format the disk, then wait while the disk device is formatted. This may take a long time if the disk is large.

If you select Verify, you can press Esc at any time to stop the verification process. (This does not damage the disk.) If the utility finds bad blocks on the disk, it displays informa- tion about them. You can reassign the bad block(s) to prevent data from being stored there.

6.Repeat steps 3,4, and 5, as needed, to format or verify other disk devices. When you are finished, press Esc to exit.

Formatter and Partitioner (afdisk)

Use the DOS-based afdisk utility to partition and format SCSI hard disk drives, Floptical® drives, and magneto-optical dries. You can also use afdisk to remove DOS and non-DOS partitions from a disk drive and to format removable media in standard hard disk format, OS/2 floppy format, or DOS V (Japanese) format.

NOTE: Use afdisk only if the disk device is not controlled by the host adapter BIOS – that is, if the host adapter does not have BIOS or if its BIOS is not enables. If the disk device is controlled by the host adapter BIOS, use the DOS fdisk utility to partition and format the disk device. (See the MSDOS documentation.).

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