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determine how drives are listed—and every motherboard uses its own

numbering system! One common numbering method uses the term channels

for each controller. The first boot device is channel 1, the second is channel

2, and so on. So instead of names of drives, you see numbers. Look at Figure

8-30.

Figure 8-30 Standard CMOS features

Whew! Lots of hard drives! This motherboard supports six SATA

connections. Each connection has a number, with an M.2 SSD on SATA 0,

hard drives on SATA 1 and SATA 2, and the optical drive on SATA 3. Each

was autodetected and configured by the BIOS without any input from me.

Oh, to live in the future!

Boot Order

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