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Chapter 6 SCSI Setup and Configurations 83
5. If you select Format, confirm that you want to format the disk, and
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 information 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 have 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 drives. 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 enabled. If
the disk device is controlled by the host adapter
BIOS, use the DOS afdisk utility to partition and
format the disk device. (See the MS-DOS documen-
tation.)
Run afdisk from the DOS prompt only, not from the Windows
MS-DOS prompt. Before you run it, make sure that the disk devices
you want to format and partition are connected to the host adapter and
are powered on. Then follow these steps:
1. Change to the directory where afdisk.exe is located (usually
c:\scsi), type afdisk at the DOS prompt, and press Enter. Informa-
tion about your SCSI disk devices appears on the screen. (The
number that appears after Target is the device’s SCSI ID.)