User`s manual

CBI-1010
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At
the statement: SAVE
NEW
CONFIGURATION
(Y
or
N)? enter
Y.
4 The monitor will display COMPLETE
when
finished executing.
Formatting the Drive
This section details formatting a drive. The
CBI-IOIO
issues Format Unit
Command
to the selected
SCSI
disk drive
and
requests
it
to
map
out
the
defects
on
the Manufacture Defect List (MDL). Remember formatting a drive
will rewrite all the sectors of that drive.
CMD recommends that
you
format all
new
drives. To format a drive, follow
the steps below:
1 Select option 2 from the
main
menu.
2 Enter the device
number
from 0 to 6
in
the statement: ENTER DEVICE
NUMBER 0
TO
6 :
3
At
the statement:
***
WILL DESTROY DATA
ON
DEVICE
X,
ARE
YOU SURE? en-
ter Y if
you
want
to continue.
4 The monitor displays
WAIT
while the drive is executing the format
process.
5 The monitor will display COMPLETE
when
finished executing.
Qualifying the Drive
After formatting the device, CMD recommends
you
qualify devices
by
running
this procedure
at
lease once
without
errors detected. The qualify
program
writes different patterns to the drive
and
then
verifies the data. If
there are any
bad
sectors, the sectors will automatically be replaced
and
the
statement
XX
XXXXXXXX
BAD BLOCK REPLACED will appear. Follow the
instructions below for qualifying a drive.
1
Select option 3 from the
main
menu.
2 Enter the device
number
at the statement: QUALIFY DEVICE NUMBER
<0
TO
6>:
3
At
the statement:
***
WILL DESTROY DATA
ON
THIS DEVICE,
ARE
YOU SURE?
enter Y
if
you
want
to continue.
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