Asus P5B-E Plus - Manual (Page 80)

-1 Chapter 4: BIOS setup
DMA Mode [Auto]
Selects the DMA mode.
Configuration options: [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1] [SWDMA2] [MWDMA0]
[MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2] [UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5]
SMART Monitoring [Auto]
Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology.
Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]
32Bit Data Transfer [Enabled]
Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA Configuration [Enhanced]
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]
Configure SATA As [IDE]
Sets the configuration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the Southbridge
chip.
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].
If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage
devices, keep the defaul setting [IDE].
IDE Configuration
SATA Configuraton [Enhanced]
Configure SATA as [IDE]
Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]
IDE Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]
4.3.6 IDE Configuration
The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the IDE
devices installed in the system. Select an item then press if you want to
configure the item.
Options
Disabled
Compatiable
Enhanced