Sata configuration – Foxconn Z75M-S User Manual

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SATA Configuration

Security

Main

Boot

OC plus

Save&Exit

Advanced

Enable or Disable SATA

Device.

→ ←: Select Screen

↑ ↓/Click: Select Item

Enter/Dbl Click: Select

+/-: Change Opt.

F1: General Help

F2: Previous Values

F3: Optimized Defaults

F4: Save & Exit

ESC/Right Click: Exit

SATA Configuration

SATA Controller(s)

[Enabled]

SATA Mode Selection

[IDE]

Serial ATA Port 0

Not Present

Serial ATA Port 1

Not Present

Serial ATA Port 2

Not Present

Serial ATA Port 3

Not Present

Serial ATA Port 4

Not Present

Serial ATA Port 5 (MSATA)

Not Present

► SATA Controller(s)
This item is used to enable or disable the onboard SATA controller.
► SATA Mode Selection

This item is used to set the operating mode of your SATA ports.
[IDE] - This configures the SATA ports to support native IDE mode.
[AHCI] - The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) specification describes the register
level interface for a Host Controller for Serial ATA. The specification includes a description of
the hardware/software interface between system software and the host controller hardware.
AHCI provides more advanced features including SATA features, but some SATA drives may
not support AHCI, unless they are labeled with AHCI support in its specification.
If your motherboard supporting AHCI, and you have a SATA device, which also supports
AHCI, then you can select IDE option to have fair performance (only PATA, SATA level), or
you can select AHCI to get its best performance.
[RAID] - When you enable RAID, it means all your SATA drives must also support AHCI.

► Aggressive LPM Support (Appears when “SATA Mode” is set to [AHCI])

The SATA controller supports auto-generating link requests to the partial or slumber states
when there are no commands to process. This item is used to enable or disable this function.
When enabled, the SATA controller will aggressively enter a lower link power state (partial or
slumber) based upon the setting of the ASP bit (bit 27).

► Serial ATA Port 0/1/2/3/4/5

This item shows the SATA device information connected to Port 0/1/2/3/4/5.

► Hot Plug (Appears when “SATA Mode” is set to [RAID]/[AHCI)

The hot plug function allows for device detection without power being applied and ability to
connect and disconnect devices without prior notification to the system. This item is used to
enable or disable hot plug function for SATA hard disks when in RAID/AHCI mode.

► External SATA (Appears when “SATA Mode” is set to [AHCI])

This item is used to allow an outside the box connection of up to 2 meters (when using the
cable defined in SATA-IO) or not.

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