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August 9th, 2015 23:00
Format Physical Disk using PERC 6/i BIOS utility
I am using Dell R710 server which has raid controller PERC 6/i BIOS utility. I want to use few old hard disks on this server. As they are old disks, I first want to format them. How can I format those physical hard disks using RAID BIOS utility? I have experience of formatting of physical hard disks on other types of RAID controllers so I am looking if there is a way on PERC 6/i.
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Rohanil
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theflash1932
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August 10th, 2015 15:00
This is also largely unnecessary. You can simply create an array with the new disks (required to use them) and the quick init that runs in the background will be sufficient.
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August 11th, 2015 20:00
Thanks Robert for answering.
I want to ask if full initialization is as same as slow initialization. I can do full initialization on virtual disk by performing 'Start Init' operation. Is it same as slow initialization?
Moreover, full initialization says it will clean up virtual disk data. Does that also mean that it will clean up all data on the physical disks?
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Rohanil