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Chapter 3, 2 storage configuration, 3 ahci configuration – Asus Motherboard P7P55D User Manual

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ASUS P7P55D

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Chapter 3

3.4.2

Storage Configuration

The Storage Configuration menu allows you to configure your storage devices. Select an item

then press to display the submenu.

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

Storage Configuration

SATA Configuraton

[Enhanced]

Configure SATA as

[IDE]

Hard Disk Write Protect

[Disabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec)

[35]

Set [Compatible Mode]

when Legacy OS (i.e.

WIN ME, 98, NT4.0, MS

DOS) is used.

Set [Enhanced Mode]

when Native OS (i.e.

WIN2000, Win XP, Vista

is used.

SATA Configuration [Enhanced]

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]

Configure SATA as [IDE]

Sets the configuration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the PCH chip.

Configuration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI]

If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage

devices, keep the default setting [IDE].

If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller

Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. 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.

If you want to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, or the Intel

®

Matrix Storage

Technology configuration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]

Disables or enables device write protection. This will be effective only if the device is

accessed through BIOS. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]

Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices. Configuration options: [0] [5] [10]

[15] [20] [25] [30] [35]

3.4.3

AHCI Configuration

This menu is the section for AHCI configuration. It appears only when you set the item

Configure SATA as from the sub-menu of SATA Configuration to [AHCI].

BIOS SETUP UTILITY

Main

AHCI Settings

SATA Port1 [Not Detected]

SATA Port2 [Not Detected]

SATA Port3 [Not Detected]

SATA Port4 [Not Detected]

SATA Port5 [Not Detected]

SATA Port6 [Not Detected]

Some SATA CD/DVD in

AHCI mode need to

wait ready longer.

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