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Ide confi guration, Primary/secondary/third/fourth ide master/slave – SUPER MICRO Computer H8QI6-F User Manual

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Chapter 4: BIOS

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Secure Virtual Machine Mode

This setting is used to Enable or Disable SVM.

Power Now

This setting is used to Enable or Disable the AMD Power Now feature.

ACPI SRAT Table

This option Enables or Disables the building of the ACPI SRAT Table.

CPU Prefetching

Use this setting to Enable or Disable CPU prefetching.

IO Prefetching

Use this option to Enable or Disable IO prefetching.

Probe Filter

Use this option to set the initialization mode for the probe fi lter. Options include

Auto, Disabled and MP Mode.

IDE Confi guration

Onboard PCI IDE Controller

This setting allows you to Enable or Disable the PCI IDE controller.

Primary/Secondary/Third/Fourth IDE Master/Slave

LBA/Large Mode

LBA (Logical Block Addressing) is a method of addressing data on a disk

drive. The options are Disabled and Auto.

Block (Multi-Sector Transfer)

Block mode boosts IDE drive performance by increasing the amount of data

transferred. Only 512 bytes of data can be transferred per interrupt if block

mode is not used. Block mode allows transfers of up to 64 KB per interrupt.

Select "Disabled" to allow the data to be transferred from and to the device

one sector at a time. Select "Auto" to allows the data transfer from and to the

device occur multiple sectors at a time if the device supports it. The options

are Auto and Disabled.

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