Intel PMB-531LF Secondary Master/Slave PIO, Sata Mode, On-Chip Serial ATA, Pata IDE Mode

Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup

Secondary Master/Slave PIO

The four IDE PIO fields allow you to set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4 provide successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each device.

5.SATA Mode:

Set the Serial ATA configuration. When set in Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) or RAID mode, the SATA controller is set to Native mode. Configuration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI].

6.Primary Master/Slave UDMA Secondary Master/Slave UDMA

Ultra DMA/33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver (Windows 95 OSR2 or a third-party IDE bus master driver). If you hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA/33, select Auto to enable BIOS support.

7.On-Chip Serial ATA:

[Disabled]: Disabled SATA Controller.

[Auto]: Auto arrange by BIOS.

[Combined Mode]: PATA and SATA are combined. Max.of 2 IDE drives in each channel.

[Enhanced Mode]: Enable both SATA and PATA. Max.of 6 IDE drives are supported.

[SATA Only]: SATA is operating in legacy mode.

8.PATA IDE Mode

To select PATA IDE Mode sequence

9.SATA Port

According PATA IDE Mode to determine SATA sequence

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