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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

SATA Configuration [Enhanced]

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

Configure SATA as [IDE]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration. This item appears only when you

set the SATA Configuration item to [Compatible] or [Enhanced].
[IDE]

Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives

as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[RAID]

Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from

the SATA hard disk drives.

[AHCI]

Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the

AHCI (Advabced Host Controller Interface). 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.

Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]

[Enabled]

Enable device write protection. This function will be effective only if

the device is accessed through BIOS.

[Disabled]

Disable this function.

SATA Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices from the following

options: [0] [5] [10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35]

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Storage Configuration

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

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

configure the item.

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

Storage Configuration

SATA Configuraton

[Enhanced]

Configure SATA as

[IDE]

Hard Disk Write Protect

[Disabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec)

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Set [Compatible Mode]

when Legacy OS (i.e.

WIN ME, 98, NT4.0, MS

DOS) is used.

Set [Enhanced Mode]

when Native OS (i.e.

WIN2000, Win XP, Vista

is used.