Chapter 2
Installation and BIOS Setup
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SMART for Hard Disk Drives
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) can help
predict impending disk drive failures. Select
Auto
to allow the AMI BIOS
to detect hard disk drive support automatically. Select
Disabled
to prevent
the AMI BIOS from using SMART. Select
Enabled
to allow the AMI
BIOS to use SMART to support the hard disk drive. The options are
Disabled
,
Enabled
, and
Auto
.
32-Bit Data Transfer
Select
Enabled
to enable 32-bit IDE data transfer. The options are
Enabled
and
Disabled
.
PCI/PnP Configuration
Clear NVRAM
This feature clears the NVRAM during system boot. The options are
No
and
Yes
.
Plug & Play OS
Selecting
Yes
allows the OS to configure Plug & Play devices. (This is not
required for system boot if your system OS supports Plug & Play.) Select
No
to allow the AMI BIOS to configure all devices in the system.
PCI Latency Timer
This feature sets the latency timer of each PCI device installed on a PCI
bus. Select
64
to set the PCI latency to 64 PCI clock cycles. The options are
32
,
64
,
96
,
128
,
160
,
192
,
224
, and
248
.
PCI IDE Bus Master
When this feature is enabled, the BIOS uses PCI bus mastering for
reading/writing to IDE drives. The options are
Disabled
and
Enabled
.
UDMA 5
Ultra DMA 5
100 Mbytes/s
UDMA 6
Ultra DMA 6
133 Mbytes/s
Table 2-2.
DMA Mode Options
Option
DMA Mode
Maximum
Transfer Rate
