Asus X99-Deluxe Series Computer Hardware User Manual


 
ASUS X99-DELUXE Series
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Chapter 3
SATA Controller 1 Mode Selection [AHCI]
This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.
[IDE Mode] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI Mode] Set to [AHCI Mode] 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 Mode] Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID conguration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [IDE].
SATA6G_1-6 (Gray)
These items display all connected devices to SATA6G ports. If some ports are not
used, these items show [Not Installed].
SATA Controller 2 Mode Selection [AHCI]
This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.
[IDE Mode] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI Mode] Set to [AHCI Mode] 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.
Due to Intel
®
chipset specication, the SATA ports from controller 2 does not support Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology including RAID conguration.
The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [IDE].
SATA6G_7-10 (Black)
These items display all connected devices to SATA6G ports. If some ports are not
used, these items show [Not Installed].
Support Aggressive Link Power Management [Disabled]
This item is designed for LPM (link power management) support with a better energy saving
conditions. When disabled, the hot plug function of SATA ports are disabled.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA6G_1-6 (Gray) / SATA6G_7-10 (Black))
These items allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]