User’s Manual
4-12 Chapter 4: BIOS setup
Serial ATA: [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA function.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
The following items appear only if you set the
SATA Controller Mode Option
item to [Enhanced].
SATA RAID Enable [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA RAID function.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA AHCI Enable [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the Serial ATA AHCI function. WinXP
service pack1+ IAA driver supports AHCI mode.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
•
SATA AHCI Enable
item appears only when
SATA RAID Enable
is set to
[Disabled]
• AHCI mode item supports only under Windows environment.
• Due to the driver limitation, you will not nd any SATA driver if you install
Fedora core 4.
Native Mode Operation: [Auto]
Allows you to choose the native mode for ATA.
Conguration options: [Auto] [Serial ATA]
The above item appears only when the
SATA Controller Mode Option
is set to
[Compatible]
SATA Controller Mode Option [Enhanced]
Allows selection of the Serial ATA operation mode depending on the operating
system (OS) that you installed. When you set this item to [Enhanced], Serial
ATA and Parallel ATA devices are auto-detected and placed in native IDE
mode. Set to [Enhanced] if you are using native OS, such as Windows
®
2000/XP. When you set this item to [Compatible], Serial ATA and Parallel
ATA devices are auto-detected and placed in legacy mode. Set this item to
[Compatible] if you are using legacy OS, e.g. Windows ME/98/NT, MS-DOS.
Conguration options: [Compatible] [Enhanced]
When you set the
SATA Controller Mode Option
item to [Enhanced] or
[Compatible] and disable ACHI/RAID mode, Intel 6321ESB can only support
maximum four hard disk drives. If you set the
SATA Controller Mode Option
item to [Enchanced] and enable ACHI or RAID, the chipset can support up to six
hard disk drives.