Owners Manual

SATA Settings

You can use the SATA Settings screen to view the SATA settings of SATA devices and enable SATA on your system.

NOTE: The XC Series system does not support the NVDIMM-N, RAID, or UEFI settings.

Viewing SATA Settings

To view the SATA Settings screen, perform the following steps:

1 Turn 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 nish 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

: The XC Series system does not support the NVDIMM-N, RAID, or UEFI settings.

Option Description

Embedded SATA Enables the embedded SATA option to be set to AHCI, or RAID modes. This option is set to AHCI by default.

Security Freeze

Lock

Sends Security Freeze Lock command to the embedded SATA drives during POST. This option is applicable only

for ATA and 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 Sets the drive type of the selected device.

For AHCI Mode or RAID Mode, BIOS support is always enabled.

Option Description

Model Species the drive model of the selected device.

Drive Type Species the type of drive attached to the SATA port.

Capacity Species the total capacity of the hard drive.

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.

NOTE

: The XC Series system does not support the NVDIMM-N, RAID, or UEFI settings.

• UEFI: The Unied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a new interface between operating systems and platform rmware. The

interface consists of data tables with platform related information, also boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating

system and its loader. The following benets are available when the Boot Mode is set to UEFI:

Pre-operating system management applications