User manual ASUS RS120-E3PA4

[. . . ] RS120-E3 User Guide (PA4) 1U Rackmount Barebone Server E2354 First Edition V1 January 2006 Copyright © 2006 ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. No part of this manual, including the products and software described in it, may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form or by any means, except documentation kept by the purchaser for backup purposes, without the express written permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ASUS provides this manual "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall ASUS, its directors, officers, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages (including damages for loss of profits, loss of business, loss of use or data, interruption of business and the like), even if ASUS has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in this manual or product. [. . . ] Place a jumper cap on pins 1-2 of the R A I D _ S E L 1 jumper to use the LSI Logic Embedded SATA RAID Utility (for RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 0+1 configuration; supported on Windows® 2000/2003 Server/XP and Red Hat® Enterprise ver. Refer to section 4. 2 Jumpers for details. Place a jumper cap on pins 2-3 of the RAID_SEL1 jumper to use the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager (for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, or software RAID 5 configuration; supported on Windows® 2000/2003 Server/XP). ASUS RS120-E3/PA4 5-15 The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands. If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. For details on AHCI, go to: www. intel. com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/CS-012304. htm www. intel. com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/CS-012305. htm The SATA controller is set to Native mode when this item is set to [RAID] or [AHCI]. Onboard SATA RAID ROM [Disabled] Allows you to enable or disable the onboard SATA RAID boot ROM. If you would like to configure the SATA RAID, please set this option to "Enabeld". Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] The O n b o a r d S A T A R A I D R O M item appears only when you set the C o n f i g u r e S A T A A s item to [RAID]. If the S A T A R A I D R O M disabled, the RAID utility won't appear during POST. Legacy IDE Channels [SATA Pri, PATA Sec] Allows you to set Serial ATA, Parallel ATA, or both, to legacy mode. Configuration options: · [SATA Only] - SATA1, SATA2, SATA3, and SATA4 ports are available · [PATA Pri, SATA Sec] - PATA, SATA2, and SATA4 ports are available · [SATA Pri, PATA Sec] - SATA1, SATA3, and PATA ports are available · [PATA Only] - Only PATA ports are available The Legacy IDE Channels option appears only when you set the A T A/ I D E A/ C o n f i g u r a t i o n item to [Compatible] mode. IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35] Selects the time our value (in seconds) for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices. Configuration options: [0] [5] [10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35] (RAID Mode) Main IDE Configuration ATA/IDE Configuration Configure SATA As Onboard SATA RAID ROM Primary IDE Master Primary IDE Slave IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) : : [Enhanced] [RAID] [Disabled] [ATAPI CD-ROM] [Not Detected] [35] BIOS SETUP UTILITY Set[Compatible Mode] when Legacy OS(i. e. Win2000, WIN XP)is used. 5-16 Chapter 5: BIOS setup 5. 3. 5 Primary/Secondary/Third IDE Master/Slave The BIOS automatically detects the connected IDE devices. There is a separate sub-menu for each IDE device. Select a device item, then press <Enter> to display the IDE device information. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Main Primary IDE Master Device : Hard Disk Vendor : ST320413A Size : 20. 0GB LBA Mode : Supported Block Mode : 16 Sectors PIO Mode : Supported Async DMA : MultiWord DMA-2 Ultra DMA : Ultra DMA-5 SMART Monitoring: Supported Type LBA/Large Mode Block(Multi-sector Transfer) PIO Mode DMA Mode SMART Monitoring 32Bit Data Transfer [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Disabled] Select the type of device connected to the system. +F1 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Save and Exit Exit v02. 58 (C)Copyright 1985-2004, American Megatrends, Inc. The BIOS automatically detects the values opposite the dimmed items (Device, Vendor, Size, LBA Mode, Block Mode, PIO Mode, Async DMA, Ultra DMA, and SMART monitoring). These items show N/A if no IDE device is installed in the system. Type [Auto] Selects the type of IDE drive. Setting to [Auto] allows automatic selection of the appropriate IDE device type. Select [CDROM] if you are specifically configuring a CD-ROM drive. Select [ARMD] (ATAPI Removable Media Device) if your device is either a ZIP, LS-120, or MO drive. Configuration options: [Not Installed] [Auto] [CDROM] [ARMD] LBA/Large Mode [Auto] Enables or disables the LBA mode. Setting to [Auto] enables the LBA mode if the device supports this mode, and if the device was not previously formatted with LBA mode disabled. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Auto] Block (Multi-sector Transfer) [Auto] Enables or disables data multi-sectors transfers. When set to [Auto], the data transfer from and to the device occurs multiple sectors at a time if the device supports multi-sector transfer feature. When set to [Disabled], the data transfer from and to the device occurs one sector at a time. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Auto] ASUS RS120-E3/PA4 5-17 PIO Mode [Auto] Selects the PIO mode. [. . . ] Go to the A d v a n c e d M e n u highlight C P U C o n f i g u r a t i o n u, n, then press <Enter>. p( Set the I n t e l ( R ) S p e e d S t e p( t m ) t e c h . item to [Automatic], then press <Enter>. Press <F10> to save your changes and exit the BIOS setup. [. . . ]