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Chapter 3: BIOS setup
Chapter 3
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[Disabled] Disables the SATA function.
[IDE] Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[AHCI] 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] Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID conguration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
Aggressive LPM Support [Auto]
Allows you to enable the PCH to aggressively enter link power state.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
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.
Conguration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA6G_1 - SATA6G_6 [Yellow])
These items appear only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] or [RAID],
and allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]