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Chapter 5: BIOS setup

ATA/IDE Configuration [Enhanced]

Allows selection of the IDE operation mode depending on the installed operating

system (OS). Set to [Enhanced] mode if you are using native OS, e.g.

Windows

®

Server 2000/2003. Set to [Compatible] mode if you are using legacy OS,

e.g. Windows ME/98/NT, MS-DOS.

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

The

Configure SATA As and Fourth.IDE.Master/Slave items appear only when

you set the

ATA/IDE Configuration to [Enhanced] mode.

Configure SATA As [IDE]

Sets the configuration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the

Southbridge chip.
If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical

storage devices, set this item to [IDE].
Set this item to [RAID] if you want to create a RAID volume from Serial ATA

hard disk drives.
Place a jumper cap on pins 1-2 of the

RAID_SEL1 jumper to use the LSI Logic

Embedded SATA RAID Utility (for RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration; supported

on Windows

®

2000/2003 Server/XP and Red Hat

®

Enterprise ver. 3.0). Refer

to section

4.2.Jumpers for details.

Place a jumper cap on pins 2-3 of the

RAID_SEL1 jumper to use the Intel

®

Matrix Storage Manager (for RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration; supported on

Windows

®

2000/2003 Server/XP).

5.3.4.

IDE Configuration

The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the IDE

devices installed in the system. Select an item then press if you want to

configure the item.

IDE Configuration

ATA/IDE Configuration

[Enhanced]

Configure SATA As

[IDE]

Primary IDE Master

: [Not Detected]

Primary IDE Slave

: [Not Detected]

Tertiary IDE Master

: [Not Detected]

Tertiary IDE Slave

: [Not Detected]

Fourth IDE Master

: [Not Detected]

Fourth IDE Slave

: [Not Detected]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec)

[35]

Select Screen

Select Item

+- Change Option

F1 General Help

F10 Save and Exit

ESC Exit

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