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5-10 Chapter 5: BIOS setup

5.3.4 IDEConguration

The items in this menu allow you to set or change the congurations for the IDE

devices installed in the system. Select an item then press <Enter> if you wish to

congure the item.

SATAConguration[Enhanced]

Conguration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]

Configure SATA as [IDE]

Sets the conguration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the

Southbridge chip. Conguration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI]

• If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical

storage devices, keep the default setting [IDE].

• If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host

Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. 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 use LSI

MegaRAID or the Intel

Matrix Storage Technology

conguration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]

Disables or enables device write protection. This will be effective only if the device

is accessed through BIOS.

Conguration option: [Disabled] [Enabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices.

Conguration options: [0] [5] [10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35]

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

IDE Conguration

SATA Conguration [Enhanced]

Congure SATA as [IDE]

Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

Options

Disabled

Compatible

Enhanced

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