Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup
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Secondary Master/Slave PIO
The four IDE PIO fields allow you to set a PIO mode (0-4) for each of
the four IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes
0 through 4 provide successively increased performance. In Auto
mode, the system automatically determines the best mode for each
device.
5. SATA Mode:
Set the Serial ATA configuration. When set in Advanced Host
Controller Interface (AHCI) or RAID mode, the SATA controller is
set to Native mode. Configuration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI].
6. Primary Master/Slave UDMA
Secondary Master/Slave UDMA
Ultra DMA/33 implementation is possible only if your IDE hard drive
supports it and the operating environment includes a DMA driver
(Windows 95 OSR2 or a third-party IDE bus master driver). If you
hard drive and your system software both support Ultra DMA/33,
select Auto to enable BIOS support.
7. On-Chip Serial ATA:
[Disabled]: Disabled SATA Controller.
[Auto]: Auto arrange by BIOS.
[Combined Mode]: PATA and SATA are combined. Max.of 2 IDE
drives in each channel.
[Enhanced Mode]: Enable both SATA and PATA. Max.of 6 IDE drives
are supported.
[SATA Only]: SATA is operating in legacy mode.
8. PATA IDE Mode
To select PATA IDE Mode sequence
9. SATA Port
According PATA IDE Mode to determine SATA sequence