ASROCK P43D1600TWINS User Manual page 52

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.
OnBoard IDE Controller
Use this item to enable or disable onboard IDE controller. The default value
is [Enabled].
IDE Device Configuration
You may set the IDE configuration for the device that you specify. We will
use the "Primary IDE Master" as the example in the following instruction.
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Advanced
Primary IDE Master
Device :Hard Disk
Vendor :ST340014A
:40.0 GB
Size
LBA Mode :Supported
:16Sectors
Block Mode
PIO Mode :4
:MultiWord DMA-2
Async DMA
Ultra DMA :Ultra DMA-5
S.M.A.R.T. :Supported
Type [Auto]
[Auto]
LBA/Large Mode
[Auto]
Block (Multi-Sector Transfer)
[Auto]
PIO Mode
[Auto]
DMA Mode
[Disabled]
S . M . A . R . T .
[Enabled]
32Bit Data Transfer
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TYPE
Use this item to configure the type of the IDE device that you specify.
Configuration options: [Not Installed], [Auto], [CD/DVD], and [ARMD].
[Not Installed]: Select [Not Installed] to disable the use of IDE device.
[Auto]: Select [Auto] to automatically detect the hard disk drive.
After selecting the hard disk information into BIOS, use a disk
utility, such as FDISK, to partition and format the new IDE hard
disk drives. This is necessary so that you can write or read
data from the hard disk. Make sure to set the partition of the
Primary IDE hard disk drives to active.
Select the type
of device connected
to the system.
Select Screen
Select Item
+- Change Option
F1 General Help
F9 Load Defaults
F10 Save and Exit
ESC Exit
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