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Appendix D: Adaptec HostRAID Setup Guidelines

D-17

To format a disk

Note: The operation of Formatting Disk allows you to perform a low-level format-

ting of a hard drive by writing zeros to the entire disk. Serial ATA drives are low-level

formatted at the factory and do not need to be low-level formatted again.

3 When the screen shown below displays, select Format Disk and press <Enter>.

The following screen appears:

4 Read the warning message when it appears in the screen as shown below. To

continue with disk formatting, select Yes and hit <Enter>. Otherwise, select No

and press <Enter>.

Warning: Formatting a disk destroys all data on the drive. Be sure to back up

your data before formatting a disk.

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