EISA Fast SCSI Caching Adapter

This screen gives us the information about the adapter-0 has five SCSI devices (ID ranging from 0 to 4) and the FUJITSU M2614S/MAXTOR LXT-200S joined as a mirror pair.

Low level format utility: Since most of the SCSI drives are already pre- formatted when shipped from their manufacturers, you can skip this section except in the following situations:

nDisk drive is damaged

nDisk drive has not been formatted with 512B/block

After selecting the desired device with confirmation, the low-level-format will proceed then. Under normal circumstances, it is both unnecessary and inadvisable to do low-level formatting. Also, executing this utility will erase all information and data on the drive.

Mirror pair initialization: The pair of mirroring drives are defined in the Mirrored to SCSI ID option of the DC-820B SCSI Device Option when executing the ECU. This module helps you prepare the necessary procedures before performing disk mirroring and restore the data once one of the mirror- pair drives is in trouble. By executing this initialization utility, you are able to make an exact duplicate of the master drive. Note that this initialization

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