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Monitoring and Maintenance Activities
Manual No. 775029 4-71
How Do I Format a Physical Drive?
RAID EzAssist gives you the option of low-level formatting physical
devices. This may be necessary if you obtain new drives that have not been
formatted previously, or if you wish to reuse an older drive and completely
erase its previous data. A low-level format of a physical drive takes time and
slightly slows system performance, so be sure you run this function at a
convenient time.
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Use the arrow key to select Perform Administration on... on
the main menu, then press Enter.
The Administration menu is displayed (Figure 4-70).
Figure 4-70. Administration Menu - Physical Device
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Use the arrow key to select Physical Device, then press Enter.
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Select a Physical Device.
The first step is to select the physical device that you wish to format. You do
this from the Physical Drive Selection screen (Figure 4-71).
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WARNING
Formatting a physical drive will erase all data on
that drive! Use the Format Drive option with
extreme caution.