Adaptec SBC-599 - Manual (Page 97)

Chapter 6 SCSI Setup and Configurations 87
4. When the next screen appears, select either Format or Verify
(to verify that the disk is free of surface defects), then press
Enter.
WARNING: Back up important data before you format the disk
device! A low-level format erases all data from the disk.
5. If you select Format, confirm that you want to format the
disk, 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 informa-
tion 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 are 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 dries.
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
enables. If the disk device is controlled by the
host adapter BIOS, use the DOS fdisk utility to
partition and format the disk device. (See the
MSDOS documentation.).