Adaptec GDTSETUP Manual de instalación descargar pdf (Pagina 51)

The warning of the destruction of all data implies different evaluations, depending on the

device's current state and the options you selected:

1. First Initialization of the Device

In this case, the warning must be taken seriously. If the drive was previously connected

to a different controller (e.g. NCR etc.) and still contains important data, this data will

be lost now.

2. The Device was already initialized

If only internal parameters such as Disconnect, Synchronous Transfer, and SCSI Options

have been changed, the data on the drive remains intact. Only the function state of the

device changes.

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This option destroys all data on the hard disk.

All manufacturers of hard disks deliver their products already formatted and surface-tested.

For new hard disks it is neither necessary, nor advisable to perform the Format Disk.

This procedure is only indicated if you have doubts on the hard disk's condition.

The time required for the Format Disk of a hard disk depends on the hard disk itself. It can

take quite a long time (up to days !). Often it seems that nothing happens and that the sy-

stem hangs (no LED indication). If you put your ear on the hard disk you can hear the ac-

tuator stepping (with some drives one step per minute or longer).

Never interrupt a

Format Disk procedure.

This may lead with a very high probability to a non-functioning

hard disk.

Before the actual formatting, GDTSETUP asks you whether the "Grown Defect" table of the

hard disk should be deleted. Some users believe that this makes a hard disk with a lot of

grown defects like new. This is wrong. As soon as the bad sectors are accessed again, a re-

assign will happen, generating a new grown defect.

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