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Chapter 4: BIOS Setup
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The system supports various SATA mode.
Use this menu to configure specific SATA Port for all ports on the system.
Item Selection
IDE Mode
Set to IDE mode when your want to use the Serial-ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA
physical storage devices.
AHCI Mode
Set to AHCI mode 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 SATA features that increases storage performance or workloads
where multiple simultaneous read/write requests are outstanding, most often
occurring in server-type applications (native command queuing). It also facilitates hot
swapping.
Disable Disable the SATA controller.
Item Selection
Staggered Spin-Up
Spin-up is a simple mechanism by which the storage subsystem controller
can sequence hard disk drive initialization and spin-up. Set to control
whether each specific drive will spin up.
External
Enable or disable external SATA connectivity.
Hot Plug
The AHCI of SATA provides hot plug capability to allow drives to be added
or removed with the PC running.
Mechanical Switch
Enable this option to support a mechanical presence switch attached to
this port. Disable this option to not support a mechanical presence switch
attached to this port.