HP Z230 Workstation - Maintenance and Service Guide

Option Description
Device Configuration Lists all installed BIOS-controlled storage devices.
When a device is selected, detailed information and options are displayed. The following options might be
presented:
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Hard Drive: Size, model, firmware version, serial number, connector color.
Translation mode (ATA disks only)
Lets you select the translation mode to be used for the device. This enables the BIOS to access disks
partitioned and formatted on other systems and may be necessary for users of older versions of
UNIX (e.g., SCO UNIX version 3.2). Options are Automatic, Bit-Shift, LBA Assisted, User, and Off.
Available only when the drive translation mode is set to User, allows you to specify the parameters
(logical cylinders, heads, and sectors per track) used by the BIOS to translate disk I/O requests (from
the operating system or an application) into terms the hard drive can accept. Logical cylinders may
not exceed 1024. The number of heads may not exceed 256. The number of sectors per track may
not exceed 63.
CAUTION: Ordinarily, the translation mode selected automatically by the BIOS should not be
changed. If the selected translation mode is not compatible with the translation mode that was
active when the disk was partitioned and formatted, the data on the disk will be inaccessible.
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CD-ROM: Model, firmware version, serial number, connector color (not included for USB CD-ROM).
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SSD Life Used
NOTE: Displays for solid-state drives.
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SMART (ATA disks only)
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Diskette: Model and firmware version.
NOTE: Displays for USB diskette drives.
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Default Values (ATA disks only)
See Translation Mode above for details.
SATA Defaults
Storage Options eSATA Port
Allows you to set a SATA port as an eSATA port for use with an external drive. Default is enabled.
This setting affects only the port with the black connector, labeled as eSATA on the system board. This
port should have the eSATA back panel connector attached to use eSATA drives. For more information,
see the eSATA white paper at
www.hp.com.
SATA Emulation
Allows you to choose how the SATA controller and devices are accessed by the operating system. There
are three supported options.
CAUTION: SATA emulation changes may prevent access to existing hard drive data and degrade or
corrupt established volumes.
IDE—Is the most backward-compatible setting of the three options. Operating systems usually do not
require additional driver support in IDE mode.
RAID (default option)—Allows DOS and boot access to RAID volumes. Use this mode with the RAID device
driver loaded in the operating system to take advantage of RAID features.
AHCI—Allows operating systems with AHCI device drivers loaded to take advantage of more advanced
features of the SATA controller.
NOTE: The RAID/AHCI device driver must be installed prior to attempting to boot from a RAID/AHCI
volume. If you attempt to boot from a RAID/AHCI volume without the required device driver installed, the
system will crash (blue screen). RAID volumes may become corrupted if they are booted to after disabling
RAID.
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