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MCP SATA Mode

► SATA Operation Mode

This item is used to set the operating mode of your SATA ports. The available options are:

[IDE] - This

configures the SATA ports to support legacy PATA mode or SATA mode.

[AHCI] -

The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) specification describes the register

level interface for a Host Controller for Serial ATA. The specification includes a description of
the hardware/software interface between system software and the host controller hardware.

AHCI provides more advanced features including SATA features, but some SATA drives may
not support AHCI, unless they are labeled with AHCI support in its specification.
If your motherboard supporting AHCI, and you have a SATA device, which also supports AHCI,

then you can select IDE option to have fair performance (only PATA, SATA level), or you can

select AHCI to get its best performance.

[Linux AHCI] - For advanced Linux system if it supports AHCI, then you can select this optiion.

[RAID] - When you enable RAID, it means all your SATA drives must also support AHCI.

Phoenix - AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility

MCP SATA Mode

SATA Operation Mode

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IDE

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Item Help

x SATA Pri-Master RAID

Disabled

x SATA Pri-Slave RAID

Disabled

Menu Level ►

x SATA Sec-Master RAID

Disabled

x SATA Sec-Slave RAID

Disabled

x SATA Thi-Master RAID

Disabled

x SATA Thi-Slave RAID

Disabled

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F5: Previous Values F7: Optimized Defaults

IDE

With your motherboard and SATA hard disk both supporting AHCI, you had better set

this BIOS setting to AHCI, then install your Operating System (such as Windows XP).

Later, if you ever change this BIOS setting to IDE, OS still can run.
But if you at the first time set this setting to IDE, then install the Operating System.
Later, if you change this BIOS setting to AHCI, this operating system can not run.

NING!

The Installation procedures for AHCI and RAID drivers are the same, they are :

■ Creating a bootable drive (or RAID array).
■ Creating a non-bootable drive (or RAID array).

In Chapter 5, only RAID is introduced. AHCI installation is almost the same, the only
difference is BIOS SATA Operation Mode is set to [AHCI] instead of [RAID].