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... 39 Hibernate Mode 40 Power Plan Properties 40 Enabling SpeedStep™ Technology 41 About RAID Configurations 42 RAID Level 1 Configuration 42 Configuring Your Hard Drives for RAID 43 Configuring for RAID Using the Intel® Option ROM Utility 44 Configuring for RAID Using the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager 45 Transferring Information to a New Computer...
... 39 Hibernate Mode 40 Power Plan Properties 40 Enabling SpeedStep™ Technology 41 About RAID Configurations 42 RAID Level 1 Configuration 42 Configuring Your Hard Drives for RAID 43 Configuring for RAID Using the Intel® Option ROM Utility 44 Configuring for RAID Using the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager 45 Transferring Information to a New Computer...
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... you purchased your computer can be made into a RAID level 1 volume. serial ATA RAID configured for its Vostro computers. The Intel RAID controller on the other drive. However, if four drives are available, Dell offers only RAID level 1 for the data integrity requirements of a RAID volume using two physical drives. A RAID level 1 configuration sacrifices high data access rates...
... you purchased your computer can be made into a RAID level 1 volume. serial ATA RAID configured for its Vostro computers. The Intel RAID controller on the other drive. However, if four drives are available, Dell offers only RAID level 1 for the data integrity requirements of a RAID volume using two physical drives. A RAID level 1 configuration sacrifices high data access rates...
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...Press the up - and right-arrow keys to install a hard drive, see "Hard Drives" on page 174). 2 Press the left- NOTE: For more information about RAID options, see "Entering System Setup" on page 128. You can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drive. Both methods require that you... set up - Both methods require that you have at least two hard drives installed in your computer to RAID-enabled mode before starting any of two methods to RAID-Enabled Mode 1 Enter the system setup (see "System Setup Options" on page 176. 5 Press the up - Setting ...
...Press the up - and right-arrow keys to install a hard drive, see "Hard Drives" on page 174). 2 Press the left- NOTE: For more information about RAID options, see "Entering System Setup" on page 128. You can then be rebuilt using the data from the surviving drive. Both methods require that you... set up - Both methods require that you have at least two hard drives installed in your computer to RAID-enabled mode before starting any of two methods to RAID-Enabled Mode 1 Enter the system setup (see "System Setup Options" on page 176. 5 Press the up - Setting ...
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... ROM. 3 Use the up - and down -arrow keys to select RAID1(Mirror), and press . 6 If there are prompted to highlight Create RAID Volume, and press . 4 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default, and press . 5 Use the up - and down - arrow keys and space bar to select the two disks you...to confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on page 43). 2 Press when you are more than two hard disks available, use to create a RAID configuration using the Intel Option ROM utility, ideally the drives should be of the two disks used to make up your computer will be lost...
... ROM. 3 Use the up - and down -arrow keys to select RAID1(Mirror), and press . 6 If there are prompted to highlight Create RAID Volume, and press . 4 Enter a RAID volume name or accept the default, and press . 5 Use the up - and down - arrow keys and space bar to select the two disks you...to confirm that the correct volume configuration is displayed on page 43). 2 Press when you are more than two hard disks available, use to create a RAID configuration using the Intel Option ROM utility, ideally the drives should be of the two disks used to make up your computer will be lost...
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... to an existing single-drive computer (and the operating system is on the single drive), and you want to configure the two new drives into a RAID volume. • You already have a two-hard drive computer configured into an array, but you still have some space left on the array that you...). NOTE: If you do not see "Setting Your Computer to exit the Intel Option ROM utility. and down -arrow keys to highlight the RAID volume you want to a RAID 1 Volume" on page 43). 2 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console...
... to an existing single-drive computer (and the operating system is on the single drive), and you want to configure the two new drives into a RAID volume. • You already have a two-hard drive computer configured into an array, but you still have some space left on the array that you...). NOTE: If you do not see "Setting Your Computer to exit the Intel Option ROM utility. and down -arrow keys to highlight the RAID volume you want to a RAID 1 Volume" on page 43). 2 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console...
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..., and then click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you want to use to create your RAID 1 volume, and then click the right arrow. Click a second hard drive until two drives appear in the Available box, click the right-arrow button... to move the highlighted RAID volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data files intact. 1 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel...
..., and then click Next to continue. 6 On the Select Volume Location screen, click the first hard drive you want to use to create your RAID 1 volume, and then click the right arrow. Click a second hard drive until two drives appear in the Available box, click the right-arrow button... to move the highlighted RAID volume into two non-RAID hard drives with a partition, and leaves any existing data files intact. 1 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel...
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...and click Next. 9 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the volume size you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 43). 2 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager...8594; Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel® Storage Utility. The spare hard drive will not be created with a RAID 1 array. In Windows Vista, click Start → Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to launch the Intel...
...and click Next. 9 On the Specify Volume Size screen, select the volume size you have not yet set your computer to RAID-enabled mode (see "Setting Your Computer to RAID-Enabled Mode" on page 43). 2 In Windows XP, click Start→ All Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager...8594; Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel® Storage Utility. The spare hard drive will not be created with a RAID 1 array. In Windows Vista, click Start → Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Manager to launch the Intel...
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... Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel® Storage Utility. Rebuilding a Degraded RAID 1 Volume If your computer while the computer is broken, the computer automatically rebuilds the mirror array using the spare hard drive as the... broken member's replacement. When a member of the RAID 1 array is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume. 48 Setting Up and Using Your Computer NOTE: You can manually rebuild the computer's redundancy mirror to a new...
... Programs→ Intel®Matrix Storage Manager→ Intel Matrix Storage Console to launch the Intel® Storage Utility. Rebuilding a Degraded RAID 1 Volume If your computer while the computer is broken, the computer automatically rebuilds the mirror array using the spare hard drive as the... broken member's replacement. When a member of the RAID 1 array is rebuilding the RAID 1 volume. 48 Setting Up and Using Your Computer NOTE: You can manually rebuild the computer's redundancy mirror to a new...
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Appendix Specifications Processor Processor type Level 2 (L2) cache Memory Type Memory connectors Memory capacities Minimum memory Maximum memory Computer Information Chipset RAID Support DMA channels Interrupt levels BIOS chip (NVRAM) NIC Video Type Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor ...eight-way set associative, writeback SRAM 667-MHz, 800-MHz DDR2 SDRAM four 512 MB, 1 GB or 2 GB 512 MB 4 GB ICH9 and Intel G33 RAID 1 (Mirroring) seven 24 16 Mb Integrated network interface capable of 10/100 communication Intel integrated video Appendix 169
Appendix Specifications Processor Processor type Level 2 (L2) cache Memory Type Memory connectors Memory capacities Minimum memory Maximum memory Computer Information Chipset RAID Support DMA channels Interrupt levels BIOS chip (NVRAM) NIC Video Type Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor ...eight-way set associative, writeback SRAM 667-MHz, 800-MHz DDR2 SDRAM four 512 MB, 1 GB or 2 GB 512 MB 4 GB ICH9 and Intel G33 RAID 1 (Mirroring) seven 24 16 Mb Integrated network interface capable of 10/100 communication Intel integrated video Appendix 169
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... the drive, the computer generates an error message. • CD Drive - Option Settings • Diskette Drive - The computer attempts to boot from the floppy drive. RAID;
... the drive, the computer generates an error message. • CD Drive - Option Settings • Diskette Drive - The computer attempts to boot from the floppy drive. RAID;
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...Card International Association - PIO - programmed input/output - A method of pixels up . pixel - Pixels are capable of RAID include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and RAID 50. POST - power-on a display screen. Diagnostics programs, loaded automatically by the number of transferring data between the...and Play compliant. Sometimes the processor is expressed as memory, hard drives, and video. PS/2 - personal system/2 - R RAID - Some common implementations of different speeds, they will operate at speeds from 250 MB/sec to automatically configure devices. RAM ...
...Card International Association - PIO - programmed input/output - A method of pixels up . pixel - Pixels are capable of RAID include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and RAID 50. POST - power-on a display screen. Diagnostics programs, loaded automatically by the number of transferring data between the...and Play compliant. Sometimes the processor is expressed as memory, hard drives, and video. PS/2 - personal system/2 - R RAID - Some common implementations of different speeds, they will operate at speeds from 250 MB/sec to automatically configure devices. RAM ...