Computer Setup—Storage

NOTE: Support for specific Computer Setup options may vary depending on the hardware configuration.

Table 3-2Computer Setup—Storage

Option

Description

 

 

Device Configuration

Lists all installed BIOS-controlled storage devices.

 

When a device is selected, detailed information and options are displayed. The following options

 

may be presented:

 

Hard Disk: Size, model, firmware, serial number, connector color, SMART, translation mode.

 

Translation mode lets you select the translation mode to be used for the device. This enables the

 

BIOS to access disks partitioned and formatted on other systems and may be necessary for users

 

of older versions of UNIX (e.g., SCO UNIX version 3.2). Options are Automatic, Bit-Shift, LBA

 

Assisted, User, and None.

 

CAUTION: Ordinarily, the translation mode selected automatically by the BIOS should not be

 

changed. If the selected translation mode is not compatible with the translation mode that was

 

active when the disk was partitioned and formatted, the data on the disk will be inaccessible.

 

Translation parameters (ATA disks only; this feature appears only when User translation mode

 

is selected.): Allows you to specify the parameters (logical cylinders, heads, and sectors per track)

 

used by the BIOS to translate disk I/O requests (from the operating system or an application) into

 

terms the hard drive can accept. Logical cylinders may not exceed 1024. The number of heads

 

may not exceed 256. The number of sectors per track may not exceed 63. These fields are only

 

visible and changeable when the drive translation mode is set to User.

 

Default Values: Allows you to specify the default values for the Multisector Transfers, Transfer

 

Mode, and Translation Mode for ATA devices.

 

CD-ROM: Model, firmware, serial number, connector color. No emulation options available.

 

 

Storage Options

Removable Media Boot

 

Enables/disables ability to boot the system from removable media. Default is enable.

 

SATA Emulation

 

Allows you to choose how the SATA controller and devices are accessed by the operating

 

system. There are two supported options: AHCI and IDE.

 

AHCI (default option) - Allows operating systems with AHCI device drivers loaded to take

 

advantage of more advanced features of the SATA controller.

 

IDE - This is the most backwards-compatible setting of the two options. Operating systems usually

 

do not require additional driver support in IDE mode.

 

NOTE: The AHCI device driver must be installed prior to attempting to boot from an AHCI

 

volume. If you attempt to boot from an AHCI volume without the required device driver installed,

 

the system will crash (blue screen).

 

 

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