Dell EMC XC640 Series Installation And Service Manual page 38

SATA Settings
You can use the SATA Settings screen to view the SATA settings of SATA devices and enable SATA on your system.
NOTE: The XC Series Appliance and XC Core System does not support the NVDIMM-N, RAID, or UEFI settings.
Viewing SATA Settings
To view the SATA Settings screen, perform the following steps:
Steps
1. Turn 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:
NOTE: The XC Series Appliance and XC Core System does not support the NVDIMM-N, RAID, or UEFI settings.
Option Description
Embedded SATA Enables the embedded SATA option to be set to AHCI, or RAID modes. This option is set to AHCI by
default.
Security Freeze Sends Security Freeze Lock command to the embedded SATA drives during POST. This option is
Lock applicable only for ATA and 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 Sets the drive type of the selected device.
For AHCI Mode or RAID Mode, BIOS support is always enabled.
Option
Model
Drive Type
Capacity
Boot Settings
You can use the Boot Settings screen to set the boot mode to either BIOS or UEFI. It also enables you to specify the boot
order.
NOTE: The XC Series Appliance and XC Core System does not support the NVDIMM-N, RAID, or UEFI settings.
● UEFI: The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a new interface between operating systems and platform
firmware. The interface consists of data tables with platform related information, also boot and runtime service calls that are
available to the operating system and its loader. The following benefits are available when the Boot Mode is set to UEFI:
38 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 hard drive.