Asus RS320Q-E7/RS12 - Manual (Page 82)

5-18 Chapter 5: BIOS setup
Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2012 American Megatrends, Inc.
Advanced
(1) IDE Mode. (2) AHCI Mode.
(3) RAID Mode.
SATA Configuration
SATA Mode [IDE Mode]
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
SATA Port1 ST3160812AS (160.0GB)
SATA Port2 ST3160812AS (160.0GB)
SATA Port3 ASUS CB-521 ATAPI
SATA Port4 Not Present
SATA Port5 Not Present
SATA Port6 Not Present
5.5.7 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 [IDE Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [IDE Mode] [AHCI Mode] [RAID Mode]
• If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage
devices, keep the default setting [IDE Mode].
• If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller
Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI Mode]. 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.
• If you want to create RAID sets with LSI MegaRAID utility, or Intel ® Matrix Storage
Technology from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID Mode].
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]