PI O Mode [ Auto]

Selects the PIO mode.

Configuration options: [Auto] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

DMA Mode [ Auto]

Selects the DMA mode. Configuration options: [Auto]

SMART Moni tori ng [ Auto]

Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]

32Bi t Data Transfer [Enabl ed]

Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

4.3.6 I DE Confi gurati on

The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the IDE devices installed in the system. Select an item then press <Enter> if you want to configure the item.

IDE Configuration

 

When in AHCI/

Configure SATA As

[Standard IDE]

RAID mode SATA

controller is

Onboard IDE Operate Mode

[Enhanced Mode]

forced to Native

Enhanced Mode Support On

[S-ATA]

mode.

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec)

[35]

 

 

 

 

Confi gure SATA As [ Standard I DE]

Sets the configuration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the Southbridge chip.

The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands.

If you want to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and RAID 5, or the Intel® Matrix Storage Technology configuration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices, keep the defaul setting [Standard IDE].

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