Asus P5Q TURBO - Manual (Page 68)

3-10 Chapter 3: BIOS setup
Chapter 3
3.4.2 Storage Configuration
The Storage Configuration menu allows you to configure your storage devices. Select an item
then press to display the submenu.
SATA Configuration [Enhanced]
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]
Configure SATA as [IDE]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration. This item appears only when you set the
SATA Configuration item to [Enhanced] or [Compatible].
[IDE]
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[RAID] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
[AHCI] 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.
Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]
[Enabled] Enables device write protection. This function will be effective only if the
device is accessed through BIOS.
[Disabled] Disables this function.
SATA Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]
Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices from the following options: [0] [5]
[10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35]
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Main
Storage Configuration
SATA Configuration [Enhanced]
OnChip SATA Type [IDE]
Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]
IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]
Options
Disabled
Compatible
Enhanced
32Bit Data Transfer [Enabled]
[Enabled] Sets the IDE controller to combine two 16-bit reads from the hard disk
into a single 32-bit double word transfer to the processor. This makes
more efficient use of the PCI bus as fewer transactions are needed for the
transfer of a particular amount of data.
[Disabled] Disables this function.