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Serial ATA

Select Enabled to enable Serial ATA. The options are Disabled and Enabled.

Native Mode Operation

Use this feature to select native mode settings for ATA. The options are: Serial

ATA and Auto.

SATA Controller Mode

Select Compatible to allow the SATA and PATA drives to be automatically-detected

and be placed in the Legacy Mode by the BIOS. Select Enhanced to allow the

SATA and PATA drives to be to be automatically-detected and placed in the Native

IDE Mode. (Note: The Enhanced mode is supported by the Windows 2000 OS

or a later version.)

When the SATA Controller Mode is set to Enhanced, the following items will

display:

Serial ATA (SATA) RAID Enable (Available when SATA Controller

Mode is set to Enhanced)

Select Enable to enable Serial ATA RAID. (For the Windows OS environment, use

the RAID driver if this feature is set to Enabled. When this item is set to Enabled,

the item: "ICH RAID Code Base" will be available for you to select either Intel or

Adaptec Host RAID ﬁ rmware. If this item is set to Disabled, the item-SATA AHCI

Enable will be available.) The options are Enabled and Disabled.

ICH RAID Code Base (Available when SATA RAID is set to Enabled)

Select Intel to enable Intel's SATA RAID ﬁ rmware. Select Adaptec to use Adaptec's

HostRAID ﬁ rmware. The options are Intel and Adaptec.

SATA AHCI (Available when SATA RAID is set to Enabled)

Select Enable to enable Serial ATA Advanced Host Interface. (Take caution when

using this function. This feature is for advanced programmers only.) The options

are Enabled and Disabled.

System Memory

This display informs you how much system memory is detected by the BIOS.

Extended Memory

This display informs you how much extended memory is detected by the BIOS.