MSI G31M3-F - Motherboard - Micro ATX Bios Setup Device / Vender / Size, LBA/Large Mode, DMA Mode

BIOS Setup

Device / Vender / Size

It will showing the device information that you connected to the SATA connector.

LBA/Large Mode

This allows you to enable or disable the LBA Mode. Setting to Auto enables LBA mode if the device supports it and the devices is not already formatted with LBA mode disabled.

DMA Mode

Select DMA Mode.

Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T.

This allows you to activate the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology) capability for the hard disks. S.M.A.R.T is a utility that monitors your disk status to predict hard disk failure. This gives you an opportunity to move data from a hard disk that is going to fail to a safe place before the hard disk becomes offline.

Important

Primary IDE Master/ Slave, Serial-ATA 1/2/3/4 Channel are appearing when you connect the HD devices to the IDE/ SATA connector on the mainboard.

Floppy A

This item allows you to set the type of floppy drives installed. Available options: [None], [360K, 5.25 in.], [1.2M, 5.25 in.], [720K, 3.5 in.], [1.44M, 3.5 in.], [2.88M, 3.5 in.].

3-7