Chapter 4, Bios settings – Lanner FX-3210 User Manual
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Bios Settings
Chapter 4
Network Application Platforms
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
Serial ATA Port 0/1/2/3
Use this menu to configure specific SATA Port for all ports
on the system.
Option
Description
Software
Preserve
In order to avoid losing important software
settings without legacy driver knowledge, the
software settings preservation ensures that
the value of important software settings is
maintained across a COMRESET
Port 0
Enable or disable the specific port
Hot Plug
The AHCI of SATA provides hot plug capability
to allow drives to be added or removed with the
PC running.
External
SATA
Called external SATA or eSATA, you can now
utilize shielded cable lengths up to 2 meters
outside the PC to transform SATA to be an
external storage. enable or disable this feature.
SATA Device
type
Select the SATA type from either Hard Disk Drive
or Solid State Drive
Spin Up
Device
Spin-up is a simple mechanism by which the
storage subsystem controller can sequence
hard disk drive initialization and spin-up.set to
control whether each specific drive will spin up.