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Chapter 3
SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
This item allows you to set the SATA conguration.
[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 conguration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [RAID].
Pcie Nand Configuration [Auto]
This item allows you to enable or disable PCIe NAND.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Aggressive LPM Support [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.
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 monitoring system that
shows a warning message during POST (Power-on Self Test) when an error occurs in the
hard disks.
Conguration options: [On] [Off]
Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA6G_1 - SATA6G_6)
These items allow you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Conguration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
By default, the system detects the rst priority device. The device detection priority is as
follows: PCIe M.2 > SATA Mode M.2 > PCIe SATA Express > SATA Mode SATA Express
> SATA devices.