5.3.4IDE Configuration

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 wish to configure the item.

 

 

 

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

 

 

 

IDE Configuration

 

 

ATA/IDE Configuration

 

[Enhanced]

Configure SATA as

 

[IDE]

Primary IDE Master

:

[Not Detected]

Primary IDE Slave

:

[Not Detected]

Secondary IDE Master

:

[Not Detected]

Secondary IDE Slave

:

[Not Detected]

Third IDE Master

:

[Not Detected]

Third IDE Slave

:

[Not Detected]

Fourth IDE Master

:

[Not Detected]

Fourth IDE Slave

:

[Not Detected]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec)

 

[35]

Set [Compatible Mode] when Legacy OS (i.e. WIN ME, 98, NT4.0, MS DOS)is used.

Set [Enhanced Mode] when Native OS (i.e. WIN2000, WIN XP) is used.

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ATA/IDE Configuration [Enhanced]

Allows selection of the IDE operation mode depending on the installed operating system (OS). Set to [Enhanced] if you are using native OS, e.g. Windows® 2000/ XP. Set to [Compatible] if you are using legacy OS, e.g. Windows ME/98/NT, MS- DOS. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]

The items Configure SATA as and Third, Fourth IDE Master/Slave options appear only when you set the ATA/IDE Configuration to [Enhanced].

Configure SATA As [IDE]

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

If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices, set this item to [IDE].

Set this item to [RAID], if you want to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or software RAID 5 configurations using the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager or if you want to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 configurations using the LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Setup Utility.

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

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