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Chapter 3 – Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX User Manual

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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

Chapter 3

SATA Port5-Port6 [AHCI]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration. This item appears only when you set the OnChip

SATA Channel item to [Enabled].

[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

(Advabced 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.

You can only set SATA Port5-Port6 to [IDE] if Port1-Port4 is set to [IDE].

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]

SATA Hot Plug on PORT1-6 [Disabled]

Allows you to set SATA Hot Plug on PORT1-6 to external SATA port.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

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