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3.3.3 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 Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.
[IDE] Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard
disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[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.
[RAID] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID
configuration from the SATA hard disk drives.
Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA6G_1 ~ SATA6G_2; SATA3G_1 ~ SATA3G_2;
mSATA)
These items appear only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] or
[RAID], and allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]