Perform the following steps to delete logical drives:

1Choose Objects—>Logical Drive. The logical drives display.

2Use the arrow key to highlight the logical drive you want to delete.

3Press <F5> to delete the logical drive.

This deletes the logical drive and makes the space it occupied available for you to make another logical drive.

Formatting Physical Drives

You can do low-level formatting of SCSI drives using Dell Manager. Because most SCSI disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory, this step is usually not necessary. You typically must format a disk if:

The disk drive was not low-level formatted at the factory, or

An excessive number of media errors have been detected on the disk drive.

Media Errors

Perform the following steps to check the properties screen for media errors for the drive you wish to format.

1Select Physical Drive—>Objects.

2Press the arrow keys to select the desired drive.

3Press <F2>.

The error count appears at the bottom of the properties screen. If you feel that the number of errors is excessive, you should probably format the disk drive. If more than 32 media errors were detected, PERC 3 automatically puts the drive in FAIL state. In that case, formatting the drive can clear up the problem.

You do not have 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 logical drives.

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Dell 3 manual Choose Objects-Logical Drive. The logical drives display, Select Physical Drive-Objects