Chapter 10 Jobs

Procedure

1. Press DISK UTILITY to enter this job. Then turn the dial as necessary to select DISK INFO, and press [OK].

The SU700 displays DRIVE =drive_name.

2.Turn the dial to select the disk or partition you are interested in. Selections are as follows.

FDD Floppy disk.

SCSI SCSI disk. (This selection appears only if the mounted SCSI disk is not parti- tioned [or to be more precise, contains exactly 1 partition]).

SCSI Px SCSI disk partition (where x is the number of an existing partition).

3.Press [OK].

The screen displays xxxx.xxxB LEFT, indicating the amount of memory remaining on the selected disk or partition.

4.If you wish to review the memory on other devices, press [CANCEL] once and return to Step 3. If you are ready to return to the main screen, press [OK].

<DISK FORMAT>

Use these jobs to format a floppy disk, a SCSI disk, or a selected SCSI partition. Note that SCSI operations are available only if you have installed the optional SCSI board (ASIB1 board) and have correctly mounted a SCSI device (→ p.32). Note that all format operations will destroy all information on the disk or partition.

Specifically, the following format jobs are available.

FD FORMAT

Formats a floppy disk into MS-DOS compatible format. This

 

job will delete any data already stored on the floppy disk.

SCSI QUICK FMT Logically reformats a SCSI disk into as many as eight parti- tions. Use this job when you want to reformat a SCSI disk that you have already formatted using the SCSI FORMAT job (see directly below). You cannot use this job if the target disk is completely unformatted or if it was formatted by a device other than the SU700. Since this job generates a logical format only, it executes relatively quickly. This job will delete any data already stored on the disk.

SCSI FORMAT

Formats a SCSI disk into as many as eight partitions. This

 

job generates both the physical format and the logical for-

 

mat, and therefore may take several minutes to execute. You

 

must use this job if you are formatting a SCSI disk that has

 

not yet been formatted at the SU700. This job will delete any

 

data already stored on the disk.

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