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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

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.

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.

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: [Enabled] [Disabled]

Hot Plug [Disabled]

These items appear only when you set the SATA Mode item to [AHCI Mode] or [RAID Mode]

and allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled].