3. CONFIGURING YOUR SCSI CARD
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3.2.5
Since most SCSI drives are already pre-formatted when shipped from their manufacturers,
you can skip this section except in the following situations:
A disk drive is damaged
The disk drive has not been formatted with the 512B/block parameter
proceed. Under normal circumstances, it is both unnecessary and inadvisable to perform low-
level formatting. Executing this utility will erase all information on the drive.
3.2.6
Verify Disk Utility
This utility is used to detect bad blocks on the chosen disk. With your confirmation, the bad
destructive, and therefore won't destroy the data on the drive.