Specifications

Y Confirm bypass option. If used, SCSIFMT does not ask for a confirming "Y"
keystroke before continuing with the format. USE WITH CAUTION!
Parameters may be entered in any order and in upper or lower case.
Examples
A:>SCSIFMT 14 LO M5 <Enter>
This example searches the SCSI device with SCSI ID 4, LUN 0, for bad blocks and maps out
any
bad blocks that are discovered. Five clean passes must be performed before the com-
mand completes.
A:>SCSIFMT IO F Zl <Enter>
This example formats the SCSI device with SCSI ID 0, using an interleave factor of 1.
A: >SCSIFMT 12 F Y < Enter>
This example formats the
SCSI device with SCSI ID 2 without asking for confinnotkm.
After the format is complete, you still must prepare the drive in the standard manner for
access by your operating system.
Refer to Chapter 3 for detailed step-by-step
SCSI hard disk installation procedures.
SCSIFMT-2