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| Enabled | The chipset contains a SATA IDE interface with | |||||
| SATA Controller |
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| SATA Mode |
| IDE | Setup the onboard SATA Mode. |
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| IDE DMA transfer access |
| Enabled | This feature allows | you to enable or disable | ||||
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| Disabled | DMA support for all IDE devices. |
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| The chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with | |||||
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| Enabled | support for two IDE channels. Select Enabled to | |||||
| OnChip IDE Channel10/11 |
| activate the primary / secondary IDE interface | ||||||
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| (Channel 10/11). Select Disabled to deactivate | ||||||
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| Enabled | For faster drive accesses. If you install a | |||||
| IDE Prefetch Mode |
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| Auto | The IDE PIO (Programmed Input/Output) fields | |||||
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| let you set a PIO mode | ||||||
| IDE Primary Master PIO |
| Mode 0 | ||||||
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| IDE devices that the | onboard | IDE | interface | ||||
| IDE Primary Slave PIO |
| Mode 1 | ||||||
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| supports. | Modes | 0 | through | 4 | provide | ||
| IDE Secondary Master PIO |
| Mode 2 | ||||||
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| successively increased | performance. In Auto | ||||||
| IDE Secondary Slave PIO |
| Mode 3 | ||||||
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| Ultra DMA implementation is possible only if | |||||
| IDE Primary Master UDMA |
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| your IDE | hard drive | supports | it | and the | |
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| operating environment includes a DMA driver | ||||||
| IDE Primary Slave UDMA |
| Auto | ||||||
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IDE Secondary Master UDMA |
| Disabled | |||||||
| master driver). If the hard drive and the system | ||||||||
IDE Secondary Slave UDMA |
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| software both support Ultra DMA, select Auto to | |||||||
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| enable BIOS support. |
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| Block mode is also called block transfer, | |||||
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| multiple commands, or multiple sector | |||||
| IDE HDD Block Mode |
| Enabled | read/write. If the IDE hard drive supports block | |||||
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| automatic detection of the optimal number of | ||||||
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| block read/writes per sector the drive can | |||||
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