Asus P8Z68 DELUXE - Manual (Page 86)

3-18 Chapter 3: BIOS setup
Chapter 3
3.5.4 SATA Configuration
While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The SATA
Port items show
Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port.
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.
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
This item appear only when you set the previous item to [IDE Mode]
Main Ai Tweaker Advanced Monitor Boot Tool
Exit
(1) IDE Mode. (2) AHCI Mode. (3)
RAID Mode.
Back Advanced\ SATA Configuration >
EFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode
→←: Select Screen
↑↓: Select Item
Enter: Select
+/-: Change Opt.
F1: General Help
F2: Previous Values
F5: Optimized Defaults
F10: Save ESC: Exit
F12: Print Screen
Scroll down to display the following items:
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SATA Configuration
SATA Mode AHCI Mode
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check Enabled
SATA 6G_1 (Gray) Not Present
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 6G_2 (Gray) Not Present
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 3G_3 (Blue) ASUS CB-521 ATAPI
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 3G_4 (Blue) Not Present
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 3G_5 (Blue) Not Present
Hot Plug Disabled
SATA 3G_6 (Blue) Not Present
Hot Plug Disabled