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Serial ATA [Enabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA function.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

The following items appear only if you set the SATA Controller Mode Option

item to [Enhanced].

SATA RAID Enable [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA RAID function.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

SATA AHCI Enable [Disabled]

Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA AHCI function.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

SATA AHCI Enable item appears only when SATA RAID Enable is set to

[Disabled]

• AHCI mode item supports only under Windows environment.
• Due to the driver limitation, you will not find any SATA driver if you install

Fedora core 4.

Native Mode Operation [Auto]

Allows you to choose the native mode for ATA.

Configuration options: [Auto] [Serial ATA]

The above item appears only when the SATA Controller Mode Option is set to

[Compatible]

SATA Controller Mode Option [Enhanced]

Allows selection of the Serial ATA operation mode depending on the operating

system (OS) that you installed. When you set this item to Enhanced Mode,

Serial ATA and Parallel ATA devices are auto-detected and placed in native

IDE mode. Set to Enhanced Mode if you are using native OS, such as

Windows

®

2000/XP. When you set this item to Compatible Mode, Serial ATA

and Parallel ATA devices are auto-detected and placed in legacy mode. Set

this item to [Compatible] if you are using legacy OS, e.g. Windows ME/98/NT,

MS-DOS. Configuration options: [Compatible] [Enhanced]

When you set the SATA Controller Mode Option item to [Enhanced] or

[Compatible] and disable ACHI/RAID mode, Intel 6321ESB can only support

maximum four hard disk drives. If you set the SATA Controller Mode Option

item to [Enchanced] and enable ACHI or RAID, the chipset can support up to six

hard disk drives.

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