P4M800-M7A BIOS Manual
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OnChip SATA
This option allows you to enable the onchip Serial ATA.
The Choices: Enabled
(default), Disabled.
SATA Mode
The Choices: RAID
(default).
IDE DMA Transfer Access
The Choices: Enabled
(default), Disabled.
IDE Channel 0/1
The motherboard chipset contains a PCI IDE interface with support for
two IDE channels. Select “Enabled” to activate the first and/or second IDE interface.
Select “Disabled” to deactivate an interface if you are going to install a primary
and/or secondary add-in IDE interface.
The Choices: Enabled
(default), Disabled.
IDE Prefetch Mode
The “onboard” IDE drive interfaces supports IDE prefetching for faster drive access.
If the interface does not support prefetching. If you install a primary and/or
secondary add-in IDE interface, set this option to “Disabled”.
The Choices: Enabled
(default), Disabled.
IDE Primary / Secondary Master / Slave PIO
The IDE PIO (Programmed Input / Output) fields let you set a PIO mode (0-4) for
each of the IDE devices that the onboard IDE interface supports. Modes 0 through 4
provides successively increased performance. In Auto mode, the system
automatically determines the best mode for each device.
The Choices:Auto
(default), Mode0, Mode1, Mode2, Mode3, Mode4.
IDE Primary / Secondary Master / Slave UDMA
Ultra DMA/100 functionality can be implemented if it is supported by the IDE hard
drives in your system. As well, your operating environment requires a DMA driver
(Windows 95 OSR2 or a third party IDE bus master driver). If your hard drive and
your system software both support Ultra DMA/100, select Auto to enable BIOS
support.
The Choices: Auto
(default), Disabled.
IDE HDD Block Mode
If your IDE hard drive supports block mode, select “Enabled” for automatic
detection of the optimal number of block read/ writes per sector the drive can
support.
The Choices: Enabled
(default), Disabled.
