Foxconn Destroyer User Manual page 38

MCP SATA Mode
SATA Operation Mode
x SATA Pri-Master RAID
x SATA Pri-Slave RAID
x SATA Sec-Master RAID
x SATA Sec-Slave RAID
x SATA Thi-Master RAID
x SATA Thi-Slave RAID
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► SATA Operation Mode
This item is used to set the operating mode of your SATA ports. The available options are:
[IDE] - This configures the SATA ports to support legacy PATA mode or SATA mode.
[AHCI] - The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) specification describes the register
level interface for a Host Controller for Serial ATA. The specification includes a description of
the hardware/software interface between system software and the host controller hardware.
AHCI provides more advanced features including SATA features, but some SATA drives may
not support AHCI, unless they are labeled with AHCI support in its specification.
If your motherboard supporting AHCI, and you have a SATA device, which also supports AHCI,
then you can select IDE option to have fair performance (only PATA, SATA level), or you can
select AHCI to get its best performance.
[Linux AHCI] - For advanced Linux system if it supports AHCI, then you can select this optiion.
With your motherboard and SATA hard disk both supporting AHCI, you had better set
this BIOS setting to AHCI, then install your Operating System (such as Windows XP).
Later, if you ever change this BIOS setting to IDE, OS still can run.
But if you at the first time set this setting to IDE, then install the Operating System.
Later, if you change this BIOS setting to AHCI, this operating system can not run.
[RAID] - When you enable RAID, it means all your SATA drives must also support AHCI.
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The Installation procedures for AHCI and RAID drivers are the same, they are :
■ Creating a bootable drive (or RAID array).
■ Creating a non-bootable drive (or RAID array).
In Chapter 5, only RAID is introduced. AHCI installation is almost the same, the only
difference is BIOS SATA Operation Mode is set to [AHCI] instead of [RAID].
Phoenix - AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility
MCP SATA Mode
IDE
[IDE]
Disabled
Disabled
Disabled
Disabled
Disabled
Disabled
+/-/PU/PD:Value
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