Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 - Manual (Page 91)

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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.
Main Ai Tweaker Advanced Monitor Boot Tool
Exit
Options for SATA Configuration.
Back Advanced\ SATA Configuration >
UEFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode
SATA Configuration
SATA6G_1 Not Present
SATA6G_2 Not Present
SATA6G_3 Not Present
SATA6G_4 Not Present
SATA6G_5 Not Present
eSATA Not Present
> SB SATA Configuration
SB SATA Configuration
Options for SATA Configuration.
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
[Enabled]
Enables the onboard channel SATA port.
[Disabled] Disables the onboard channel SATA port.
The following items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel item to
[Enabled].
SATA Port1–Port4 [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[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] 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.
SATA Port5–eSATA [AHCI] AHCI]]
Setting this item to [IDE] instead of [RAID] or [AHCI] allows the system to recognize the
optical drives connected to the SATA connectors 5 or eSATA when installing Windows
OS.