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Adaptec SCSI Card 29160 User’s Reference
Using the Adaptec SCSI
Card 29160 and SCSI
Devices
This section provides useful information on using the Adaptec SCSI
Card 29160 and your SCSI devices. For information about a specific
device, refer to the documentation for that device.
Using SCSI Devices
SCSI Hard Disk Drives
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If you connect a SCSI hard disk drive to the Adaptec SCSI Card
29160 that was previously connected to a different SCSI card,
you must low-level format the drive before you can use it. Back
up the data on the drive before you move it! (See Using SCSI
Disk Utilities on page 23 for information on using the SCSISelect
format utility.)
Caution:
A low-level format destroys all data on the
drive. Be sure to back up the data before performing a
low-level format.
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Every SCSI hard disk drive must be physically low-level for-
matted, partitioned, and logically formatted before it can be
used to store data. Most SCSI drives are pre-formatted at the
factory. If your SCSI hard disk drive has not been pre-format-
ted at the factory, and if your computer is running under DOS,
Windows 3.x, or Windows 95/98, you can format the disk with
the DOS
Fdisk
and
Format
commands. (See the DOS and Win-
dows documentation for more information.) To format SCSI
hard disk drives running under other operating systems, see
the operating system documentation.
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