Asus P8B WS - Manual (Page 94)

3-18 Chapter 3: BIOS setup
SATA Mode [IDE Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[IDE Mode] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk
drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI Mode] Set to [AHCI Mode] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to
use the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). 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.
[RAID Mode] Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration
from the SATA hard disk drives.
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set SATA Mode to [IDE Mode]
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support more than four SATA devices.
[Compatible] Set to [Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS.
Up to four SATA devices are supported under these operating
systems.
Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set SATA Mode to [IDE Mode]
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support more than four SATA devices.
[Compatible] Set to [Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS.
Up to four SATA devices are supported under these operating
systems.
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor
system. When read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard
disk to report warning messages during the POST.
Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
Hot Plug [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the hot plug function of each SATA port. This item
appears only when you set SATA Mode to [AHCI Mode] or [RAID Mode]