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Chapter 3 – Asus P9X79 DELUXE User Manual

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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

Chapter 3

SATA Mode [AHCI 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.

The following two items appear only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode].

Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enabled]

Allows you to enabled/disabled the Serial-ATA Controller 0.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled] [Compatible]

Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enabled]

Allows you to enabled/disabled the Serial-ATA Controller 1.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

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: [Disabled] [Enabled]

SATA6G_1 (Gray)

Hot Plug [Disabled]

This item appear only when you set the previous item to [AHCI Mode] and [RAID Mode].

It’s allow user to enabled/disabled SATA Hot Plug Support. Configuration options: [Disabled]

Configuration options: [Disabled]

[Enabled].

SATA6G_2 (Gray)

Hot Plug [Disabled]

This item appear only when you set the previous item to [AHCI Mode] and [RAID Mode].

It’s allow user to enabled/disabled SATA Hot Plug Support. Configuration options: [Disabled]

Configuration options: [Disabled]

[Enabled].