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Formatting SCSI Disks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. Wade)
Mon Jan 26 23:27:22 1998

Date: 	Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:00:40 -0600
From: "D. Wade" <wade@onramp.net>
Reply-To: wade@onramp.net
To: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu

I have a dumb newbie question.
I'm using an Adaptec 2940UW with 2.0.32.  The bios can format and verify
disks.

Do I need to format and/or verify a SCSI-2 4.3 GB Barracuda,
or an SCSI-3 IBM 4.3 GB UltraWide??? They are both new.

Thanks,
Donovan



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