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IDE disk drives.
Enhanced:
The motherboard allows up to 6 HDDs to use. The Enhanced mode triggers one
advanced option which allows you to configure your SATA drives into RAID
volumes. The RAID configuration also requires Intel or ALi’s (depending on the
chipset applied) software utilities installed on your operating system.
When set to the Enhanced mode, a different option for SATA drives, “Configure
SATA as,” will appear. This option allows you to configure your disk drives into
RAID volumes or make them behave like ordinary IDE disk drives.
NOTE:
1.
There are ways to access Intel’s or other chip provider’s (e.g., ALi)
proprietary RAID configuration utility such as pressing the Ctlr+I or Ctlr+A
keys together during POST. The access may vary and it is recommended
to refer to the chip provider’s documentation for more information.
2.
RAID configurations protect your data and increase access performance by
spinning disk drives together. However, you should consider the
drawbacks of using RAID. For example, RAID 0 boosts performance but
does not provide protection to your data. With RAID 1, you can only use
half of the capacity of your disk drives.
Legacy IDE Channels
Available options are: [SATA Only] [PATA Pri, SATA Sec] [SATA Pri, PATA Sec] [PATA Only]
Primary and Secondary, Third IDE 0/1
The values opposite the dimmed items (Device, Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block Mode, PIO Mode,
Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and SMART monitoring) are auto-detected by BIOS and are not
user-configurable. These items show N/A if no IDE device is installed in the system.
Type [Auto]
Selects the type of IDE drive. Setting to Auto allows automatic selection of the appropriate IDE
device type. Select CDROM if you are specifically configuring a CD-ROM drive. Select ARMD
(ATAPI Removable Media Device) if your device is either a ZIP, LS-120, or MO drive.
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Summary of Contents for IMB-8550
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Page 145: ...ICPMB 8550 Address Mapping Appendix B B 1 B 1 ...
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