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3.6.4 SATA Mode
The setting choices for the SATA Mode are IDE, RAID and AHCI Mode.
Select [IDE] if you want to have SATA function as IDE. Select [AHCI]
for Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) feature, with improved
SATA performance and native command queuing. Select [RAID] to use
SATA for RAID.
3.6.5 On-Chip Serial ATA
Choose the status of serial ATA. The default setting is “Auto” which lets
the system arrange all parallel and serial ATA resources automatically.
The “Disabled” setting disables the SATA controller. The “Combined
Mode” combines PATA and SATA, and maximum of 2 IDE drives in
each channel. The “Enhanced Mode” enables both SATA and PATA, and
a maximum of 6 IDE drives are supported. The “SATA Only” setting
means SATA is operating in legacy mode.
3.6.6 PATA IDE Mode
This item shows the parallel ATA channel. It is Secondary.
3.6.7 SATA Port
The PATA IDE mode must to be set to Secondary and SATA will display
“P0, P2 is Primary". It means SATA0 and SATA2 act as Primary Chan-
nel.We have one configuration with this setting by spec. and can’t swap
the channel.
Note: Please refer to the PDF-format Intel(R) Matrix
Storage Technology Quickstartguide and
Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager User's Manual
in this CD (in the MANUAL folder) to know the
necessary steps to build and configure your
RAID 0, 1 system using Intel(R) Matrix Storage
Technology and Matrix Storage Manager.