Sun Microsystems X6450 manual Using the Disk Utilities to Manage Disk Drives

Using the Disk Utilities to Manage Disk Drives

You can use the disk utilities, another tool in the BIOS RAID Configuration utility, to low-level format or verify your disk drives. (New disk drives are low-level formatted at the factory and do not need to be low-level formatted again.)

Caution – Before you format a disk drive, back up all data. Formatting destroys all data on a disk drive.

This section contains the following subsections:

■“To Format or Verify a Disk Drive With the Disk Utilities” on page 56

■“To Locate Disk Drives With the Disk Utilities” on page 56

■“To Identify Disk Drives With the Disk Utilities” on page 57

▼To Format or Verify a Disk Drive With the Disk Utilities

1.Start the BIOS RAID Configuration utility.

See “To Start the BIOS RAID Configuration Utility” on page 48. The ARCU screen appears.

2.On the ARCU screen, select Disk Utilities.

3.Select the disk drive you want, then press Enter.

4.Select Format Disk or Verify Disk Media.

▼To Locate Disk Drives With the Disk Utilities

Note – This feature is available only with disk drives that have an activity LED.

You can use the Identify Drive feature to physically locate a disk drive by blinking the LED.

56 Sun Blade X6450 Server Module Installation Guide • September 2008