User Guide

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Adaptec 7800 Family Manager
Mount Status
Mounting causes a drive to come online as a NetWare storage
device. Dismounted drives are inactive and cannot be accessed.
Before you eject your current media, you should first dismount it
(menu choice 5). When the media status is dismounted, you can eject
the media. However, NetWare does not allow you to dismount it if
the media is locked.
To insert your new media, wait for the drive to spin-up, and then
select the Drive Mount option.
Lock Status
If your removable-media device supports the Lock/Unlock feature,
you can lock the media (menu choice 6). The media must be in the
Not Locked state before you can eject it. If the media is Locked, it
cannot be ejected when you press the Eject button.
Verify (
aic7870.dsk
driver only)
Read After Write Verify (menu choice 2) is set to Hardware Level by
default. The option can also be set on the command line, see Using
the Load Command Line Options on page 4-7.
The available options are defined as follows:
Read After Write Verify
Option
Setting Function
Disabled All writes to SCSI disk drives are with the SCSI
Write command (2Ah).
Hardware
Level
All writes to SCSI disk drives are with the SCSI
Write and Verify command (2Eh). If not
supported by the drive, behavior is the same as if
Read After Write Verify is disabled. We
recommend this setting for best data security.
Software
Level
Not supported.