SATA Settings
You can use the
SATA Settings
screen to view the settings of SATA devices and enable SATA and PCIe NVMe RAID mode on your system.
Viewing SATA Settings
To view the
SATA Settings
screen, perform the following steps:
1
Power on, or restart your system.
2
Press F2 immediately after you see the following message:
F2 = System Setup
NOTE:
If your operating system begins to load before you press F2, wait for the system to finish booting, and then
restart your system and try again.
3
On the
System Setup Main Menu
screen, click
System BIOS
.
4
On the
System BIOS
screen, click
SATA Settings
.
SATA Settings details
The
SATA Settings
screen details are explained as follows:
NOTE:
•
Port A is for the internal SATA SSD.
•
Ports B—G are for the six front panel hard drives.
Option
Description
Embedded SATA
Enables the embedded SATA option to be set to
Off
,
AHCI Mode
, or
RAID Mode
modes. This option is set to
AHCI
Mode
by default.
Security Freeze
Lock
Enables you to send
Security Freeze Lock
command to the embedded SATA drives during POST. This option is
applicable only for AHCI mode. This option is set to
Enabled
by default
Write Cache
Enables or disables the command for the embedded SATA drives during POST. This option is set to
Disabled
by
default.
Port n
Enables you to set the drive type of the selected device.
For
AHCI Mode
or
RAID Mode
, BIOS support is always enabled.
Option
Description
Model
Specifies the drive model of the selected device.
Drive Type
Specifies the type of drive attached to the SATA port.
Capacity
Specifies the total capacity of the drive. This field is undefined for removable media
devices such as optical drives.
Boot Settings
You can use the
Boot Settings
screen to set the boot mode to either
BIOS
or
UEFI
. It also enables you to specify the boot order.
•
UEFI
: The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a new interface between operating systems and platform firmware. The
interface consists of data tables with platform related information, boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating
system and its loader. The following benefits are available when the
Boot Mode
is set to
UEFI
:
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Pre-operating system management applications
Summary of Contents for DSS8440
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