Asus P8B-MX - Manual (Page 77)

ASUS P8B-M series 4-19
Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2010 American Megatrends, Inc.
Advanced
(1) IDE Mode. (2) AHCI Mode.
(3) RAID Mode.
SATA Configuration
SATA Mode [IDE Mode]
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]
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
4.5.7 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 ® Rapid
Storage Technology from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to
[RAID Mode].
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]. Set to
[Enhanced] to support two SATA 6.0 Gb/s and two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices. Set to
[Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS. Up to four SATA devices
are supported under these operating systems.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enhanced] [Compatible]
Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]
This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]. Set
to [Enhanced] to support two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices. Configuration options:
[Disabled] [Enhanced]