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Chapter 3, 2 storage configuration, Onchip sata channel [enabled – Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 User Manual

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ASUS M4A89GTD PRO Series

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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.

OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]

[Enabled]

Enables the onboard channel SATA port.

[Disabled]

Disables the onboard channel SATA port.

The following two items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel item to

[Enabled].

OnChip SATA Type [Native IDE]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Native IDE]

Set to [Native 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] 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.

When this item is set to [AHCI], the information of the SATA connectors 1–6 can be

seen only under the OS environment or during POST.

For Windows

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XP OS, you have to install the AHCI driver, so that you could use the

SATA connectors 1–6 in AHCI mode under the OS environment.

SATA Port5 - Port6 [Native IDE]

Setting this item to [Native IDE] instead of [RAID] or [AHCI] allows the system to

recognize the optical dirves connected to the SATA connectors 5 or 6 when installing

OS.

If you use a SATA optical drive to run the OS installation disk, we strongly recommend that

you install the optical dirve to the SATA connectors 5/6 and set them to [Native IDE] mode.

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

Storage Configuration

OnChip SATA Channel

[Enabled]

OnChip SATA Type

[Native IDE]

SATA Port5 - Port6

[Native IDE]

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