ASUS ESC2000 Personal SuperComputer User Manual

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Chapter 5: BIOS setup

The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the SATA 

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

configure the item.

The BIOS automatically detects the values opposite the dimmed items (Device, 

Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and 

S.M.A.R.T. monitoring). These values are not user-configurable. These items show 

N/A if no SATA device is installed in the system.

Enables or disables the LBA mode. Setting to [Auto] enables the LBA mode if the 

device supports this mode, and if the device was not previously formatted with LBA 

mode disabled. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Auto]

Enables or disables data multi-sectors transfers. When set to [Auto], the data 

transfer from and to the device occurs multiple sectors at a time if the device 

supports multi-sector transfer feature. When set to [Disabled], the data transfer 

from and to the device occurs one sector at a time. 

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Auto]

Allows you to select the data transfer mode. 

Configuration options: [Auto] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

Sets the DMA mode.  

Configuration options: [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1] [SWDMA2] [MWDMA0] 

[MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2] [UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5] 

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