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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

DMA Mode [Auto]

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

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

[UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5]

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]

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

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, keep the defaul setting [IDE].
If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host

Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. 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].

3.4.6

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]

SATA Detect Time Out (Sec)

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Options

Disabled

Compatible

Enhanced