Asus P8P67 - Manual (Page 83)

ASUS P8P67 3-17
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
(1) IDE Mode. (2) AHCI Mode. (3)
RAID Mode.
Back Advanced\ SATA Configuration >
EFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode
SATA Configuration
SATA Mode AHCI Mode
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check Enabled
SATA 6G 1 (Gray) Not Present
SATA 6G 2 (Gray) Not Present
SATA 3G 3 (Blue) FUJITSU MHV2200BT PL (200.0GB)
SATA 3G 4 (Blue) ATAPI DVD D DH16D2S ATAPI
SATA 3G 5 (Blue) Not Present
SATA 3G 6 (Blue) Not Present
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.
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
This item appear only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support more than four SATA 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]
This item appear only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]
[Disabled]
Disables the SATA function.
[Enhanced] Set to [Enhanced] to support more than four SATA devices.