Iomega REV Drives format from the command line in Windows

Iomega REV drives are supposed to be a replacement for tape and we have installed many of these in servers we have deployed. From my experience they seem to be really unreliable and if we are not swapping drives out we are implementing workarounds for sporadic backup failures.

The backup success rate appears to be dramatically improved by formatting the REV drive before a scheduled bakup. This can either be done via a scheduled task or in the pre backup command for the backup software that is used.

First of all you need the Rev System Software which can be downloaded fom here.

Secondly run the following from a command prompt or a batch file:

"C:\Program Files\Iomega\REV System Software\ImDrvCLI.exe" /Drive=E: /Format

Obviously replace the drive letter with one that corresponds to your particular setup.

Regards