Chapter 4, Bios settings – Lanner FW-8771 User Manual
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BIOS Settings
Chapter 4
Network Application Platforms
SATA Controllers Configuration Settings
While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects
the presence of SATA devices. The SATA Port items show
“Empty” if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding
SATA port.
SATA Controllers
Item
Selection
Enable or
Disable SATA
Controller(s)
Set this value to enable or disable SATA
controllers
SATA Mode Selection
The system supports advanced SATA features such as
software RAID.
Item
Selection
IDE Mode
Set to IDE mode when your want to use the
Serial-ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical
storage devices.
AHCI Mode
Set to AHCI mode when you want the SATA
hard disk drives to use the AHCI (Advanced
Host Controller Interface). The AHCI allows the
onboard storage driver to enable advanced SATA
features that increases storage performance or
workloads where multiple simultaneous read/
write requests are outstanding, most often
occurring in server-type applications (native
command queuing). It also facilitates hot
swapping.
RAID
Set to the RAID mode when you want to create
a RAID configuration from the SATA Hard disk
drives. Thie chipset supports software RAID
by
using the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
software. For more information, visit