Dell DIMENSION 8400 Manual

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Setting Up and Using Your Computer 29Creating a Spare Hard DriveA spare hard drive may be created with a RAID 1 array. The spare hard drive will not be recognized bythe operating system, but you will be able to see the spare drive from within Disk Manager or the IntelOption ROM Utility. When a member of the RAID 1 array is broken, the computer automaticallyrebuilds the mirror array using the spare hard drive as the broken member’s replacement.To Mark a Drive as a Spare Hard Drive:1 Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Application Accelerator→ IntelApplication Accelerator to launch the Intel(R) Storage Utility.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-RAIDRebuilding a Degraded RAID 1 VolumeIf your computer does not have a spare hard drive, and the computer has reported a degraded RAID1 volume, you can manually rebuild the computer’s redundancy mirror to a new hard drive byperforming the following steps:1 Click the Start button and point to Programs→ Intel(R) Application Accelerator→ IntelApplication Accelerator to launch the Intel(R) Storage Utility.2 Right-click the available hard drive to which you want to rebuild the RAID 1 volume, andclick Rebuild to this Disk.3 You can use your computer while the computer is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume.Setting Up a Home and Office NetworkConnecting to a Network AdapterNOTE: Plug the network cable into the network adapter connector on the computer. Do not plug thenetwork cable into the modem connector on the computer. Do not plug a network cable into a telephonewall jack.1 Connect the network cable to the network adapter connector on the back of your computer.Insert the cable until it clicks into place, and then gently pull it to ensure that it is secure.