Dell Vostro 400 - Page 48

48 Setting Up and Using Your Computer
When a member of the RAID 1 array is broken, the computer automatically
rebuilds the mirror array using the spare hard drive as the broken member’s
replacement.
To Mark a Drive as a Spare Hard Drive:
1
Launch the Intel Storage Utility:
•In
Windows XP , click Start → All Programs → Intel Matrix Storage
Manager
→ Intel Matrix Storage Console .
•In
Windows Vista , click Start → Programs → Intel Matrix Storage
Manager
→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager .
2 Right-click the hard drive you want to mark as a spare hard drive.
3 Click Mark as Spare .
To Remove Spare Marking From a Spare Hard Drive:
1
Right-click the spare hard drive icon.
2 Click Reset Hard Drive to Non-RAID.
Rebuilding a Degraded RAID 1 Volume
If your computer does not have a spare hard drive, and the computer has
reported a degraded RAID 1 volume, you can manually rebuild the
computer’s redundancy mirror to a new hard drive by performing the
following steps:
1
Launch the Intel Storage Utility:
•In
Windows XP , click Start → All Programs → Intel Matrix Storage
Manager
→ Intel Matrix Storage Console .
In
Windows Vista , click Start → Programs → Intel Matrix Storage
Manager
→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager .
2 Right-click the available hard drive to which you want to rebuild the
RAID 1 volume, and click
Rebuild to this Disk .
NOTE: You can use your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1
volume.