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BIOS Setup

Device/ Vendor/ Size/ LBA Mode/ Block Mode/ PIO Mode/ Async DMA/

Ultra DMA/ S.M.A.R.T.

These will be showing the device information that you connected to the IDE/

S ATA connector. Read-only.

LBA/Large Mode

This allows you to enable or disable the LBA Mode. Setting to Auto enables LBA

mode if the device supports it and the devices is not already formatted with

LBA mode disabled.

D M A M o d e

Select DMA Mode.

Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T.

This allows you to activate the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis & Report-

ing Technology) capability for the hard disks. S.M.A.R.T is a utility that monitors

your disk status to predict hard disk failure. This gives you an opportunity to

move data from a hard disk that is going to fail to a safe place before the hard

disk becomes offline.

Important

Serial-ATA 1~4 Channel

are appearing when you connect the HD devices

to the SATA connector on the mainboard.