SATA boot rom?

7 Mar 2005 11:30 PM

Bobby

My BIOS has two settings which I don't understand:

1. SATA Boot ROM
2. On-board Promise Controller.

The manual is hopeless. Can anyone tell me what these settings mean and
whether I should enable or disable them?

Cheers.

Bobby

8 Mar 2005 12:48 AM

John Smith

It might help if we new what kind and model of board you have and what type
of drives you are trying to install.

Bobby wrote:

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> My BIOS has two settings which I don't understand:
>
> 1. SATA Boot ROM
> 2. On-board Promise Controller.
>
> The manual is hopeless. Can anyone tell me what these settings mean and
> whether I should enable or disable them?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Bobby

8 Mar 2005 12:54 AM

Miss Perspicacia Tick

Bobby wrote:

> My BIOS has two settings which I don't understand:
>
> 1. SATA Boot ROM

For booting from Serial ATA drives (for a definition of Serial ATA see
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Serial_ATA.html)

> 2. On-board Promise Controller.

An on board RAID (Redundant Array (of) Independent/Inexpensive Disks)
controller.

For a definition of RAID see http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

> The manual is hopeless. Can anyone tell me what these settings mean
> and whether I should enable or disable them?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Bobby

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