Asus P9X79 - Manual (Page 96)

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Chapter 3
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.
The following items appear only when you set the previous item to [IDE Mode].
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support two SATA 6.0 Gb/s and two SATA 3.0 Gb/s
devices.
[Compatible] Set to [Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS. Up to four
SATA devices are supported under these operating systems.
Serial-ATA Controller 1 [Enhanced]
[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices.
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: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA6G_1 (Gray)
Hot Plug [Disabled]
This item appear only when you set the previous item to [AHCI Mode] and [RAID Mode].
It’s allow user to enabled/disabled SATA Hot Plug Support. Configuration options: [Disabled] Configuration options: [Disabled]
[Enabled].
SATA6G_2 (Gray)
Hot Plug [Disabled]
This item appear only when you set the previous item to [AHCI Mode] and [RAID Mode].
It’s allow user to enabled/disabled SATA Hot Plug Support. Configuration options: [Disabled] Configuration options: [Disabled]
[Enabled].