Dell PERC13 and PERC12 User’s Guide PERC H975 Series and PERC H965 Series cards
Fast initialization
A fast initialization on a virtual disk overwrites the first and last 8 MiB of the virtual disk, clearing any boot records or partition information. The operation takes only 2–3 seconds to complete, but it is followed by BGI, which takes longer to complete.
NOTE: During full or fast initialization, the host cannot access the virtual disk. As a result, if the host attempts to access the virtual disk while it is initializing, all I/O sent by the host will fail.
NOTE:When using iDRAC to create a virtual disk, the drive undergoes fast initialization. During this process all I/O requests to the drive will respond with a sense key of
Not Ready and the I/O operation will fail. If the operating system attempts to read from the drive as soon as it discovers the drive and while the fast initialization is still in process, the I/O operation fails and the operating system reports an I/O error.
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