ASUS E2938 User Manual

4-4

Chapter 4: BIOS setup

Selects the DMA mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1] 

[SWDMA2] [MWDMA0] [MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2] 

[UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5] 

Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. 

Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]

Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer.  

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]

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

chip.
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 create a RAID 0, RAID 1,  RAID 5,  RAID 10, or the Intel

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 Matrix 

Storage Technology configuration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item 

to [RAID].
If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage 

devices, keep the defaul setting [IDE].

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 want to 

configure the item.