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Viewing SATA Settings
To view the SATA Settings screen, perform the following steps:
Steps
1. Power 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 finish 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
About this task
The SATA Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Option
Description
Embedded SATA
Enables the embedded SATA option to be set to Off, or AHCI Mode, or RAID Mode. This option is set to
AHCI Mode by default.
Security Freeze
Enables you to send Security Freeze Lock command to the embedded SATA drives during POST. This
Lock
option is applicable only for 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
Enables you to set the drive type of the selected device.
For AHCI Mode or RAID Mode, BIOS support is always enabled.
Option
Model
Drive Type
Capacity
NVMe Settings
The NVMe settings enable you to set the NVMe drives to either RAID mode or Non-RAID mode.
NOTE:
To configure these drives as RAID drives, you must set the NVMe drives and the Embedded SATA option in the
SATA Settings menu to RAID mode. If not, you must set this field to Non-RAID mode.
Viewing NVMe Settings
To view the NVMe Settings screen, perform the following steps:
Steps
1. Power on, or restart your system.
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Pre-operating system management applications
Description
Specifies the drive model of the selected device.
Specifies the type of drive attached to the SATA port.
Specifies the total capacity of the drive. This field is undefined for removable media
devices such as optical drives.
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