ASRock A330ION User Manual - Page 36

3.4.4 SATA Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced SATA Configuration Onboard SATA Controller SATA Operation Mode SATAII_1 SATAII_2 SATAII_3 SATAII_4 [Enabled] [IDE] [Hard Disk] [Not Detected] [Not Detected] [Not Detected] Configure onboard serial ATA Controller. +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02.54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc. Onboard SATA Controller Use this item to enable or disable the "Onboard SATA Controller" feature. SATA Operation Mode Use this item to adjust SATA Operation Mode. The default value of this option is [IDE]. If you want to operate RAID function on SATA / SATAII HDDs, please select [RAID]. Configuration options: [IDE], [AHCI] and [RAID]. * If you select [RAID] mode, SATA / SATAII HDDs can not be accessed until you finish configuring RAID functions in NVIDIA BIOS / Windows RAID Utility. * If you install OS on SATA / SATAII HDDs, please do not change the setting of this item after OS installation. AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) supports NCQ and other new features that will improve SATA disk performance but IDE mode does not have these advantages. IDE Device Configuration You may set the IDE configuration for the device that you specify. We will use the "IDE1 Master" as the example in the following instruction, which can be applied to the configurations of "IDE1 Slave" as well. 36