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Michael

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Re: cleaning / formating a h70??

« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2007, 09:53:07 PM »

just as a note for those not used to working with nim: nim also supports diag boot.

And that is how I would resolve it.

With SSA, after formating the disks you could consider making a RAID array, letting it build, and then returning them back to JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disk) mode.


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wwells

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Re: cleaning / formating a h70??

« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2007, 02:00:17 AM »

What I have done before is to boot the system to standalone diagnostics and perform a low level format of the drive via the service aids in the diagnostics.

If I remember correctly, there is also an overwrite feature in the format service aid that writes patterned/random data to the disk with multiple passes. However, I don't remember if it is for SCSI or SSA drives.