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Chapter 2: BIOS information

Enables or disables the LBA mode. Setting this item 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 this item is 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 this item is set to [Disabled], the data transfer from and to the 

device occurs one sector at a time. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Auto]

Selects the PIO mode. Configuration options: [Auto] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]

Selects the DMA mode. Configuration options: [Auto]

Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. 

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

Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

The SATA Configuration menu allows you to configure your storage devices. Select an item 

then press <Enter> to display the submenu.

Enables or disables the onboard channel SATA port. Configuration options: [Disabled] 

[Enabled]

SATA Port1 - Port4 [IDE]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.

[IDE] 

Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as 

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[RAID] 

Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA 

hard disk drives.

[AHCI] 

Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the AHCI 

(Advanced Host Controller Interface). 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.

•  When this item is set to [AHCI], the information of the SATA connectors 1–6 can be seen 

only under the OS environment or during POST.

•  For Windows

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 XP OS, you have to install the AHCI driver, so that you could use the 

SATA connectors 1–6 in AHCI mode under the OS environment.

The following two items only appear when you set OnChip SATA Channel to [Enabled].