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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

PIO Mode [Auto]

Selects the PIO mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

DMA Mode [Auto]

Selects the DMA mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1]

[SWDMA2] [MWDMA0] [MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2]

[UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5]. Only [Auto] is showed if no SATA device is installed

in the system.

SMART Monitoring [Auto]

Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology.

Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]

32Bit Data Transfer [Enabled]

Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

SATA Configuration [Enhanced]

Allows you to disable or enable SATA Configuration function.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]

3.3.5 Storage Configuration

Configure SATA as [IDE]

Sets the configuration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the

Southbridge chip.
The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial

ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by

allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands.
If you want to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, or the Intel

®

Matrix Storage Technology configuration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives,

set this item to [RAID].

Storage Configuration

SATA#1 Configuration

[Compatible]

Configure SATA as

[IDE]

Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

Options

Disabled

Compatiable

Enhanced

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