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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Configuring Controllers

As a first step in configuring controllers, make certain they’re enabled. Most

controllers remain active, ready to automatically detect new drives, but you

can disable them. Scan through your CMOS settings to locate the controller

on/off options (see Figure 8-29 for typical settings). This is also the time to

check whether the onboard RAID controllers work in both RAID and non-

RAID settings.

Figure 8-29 Typical controller settings in CMOS

Autodetection

If the controllers are enabled and the drive is properly connected, the drive

should appear in CMOS through a process called autodetection.

Autodetection is a powerful and handy feature that takes almost all the work

out of configuring hard drives. Motherboards use a numbering system to

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