3.5.4SATA Configuration

While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port.

UEFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode

 

 

Exit

Main

Ai Tweaker

Advanced

Monitor

Boot

Tool

Back

Advanced\ SATA Configuration

>

 

 

 

SATA Configuration

 

 

Options for SATA Configuration.

SATA6G_1

 

 

Not Present

 

 

SATA6G_2

 

 

Not Present

 

 

SATA6G_3

 

 

Not Present

 

 

SATA6G_4

 

 

Not Present

 

 

SATA6G_5

 

 

Not Present

 

 

eSATA

 

 

Not Present

 

 

> SB SATA Configuration

SB SATA Configuration

Options for SATA Configuration.

OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]

[Enabled]

Enables the onboard channel SATA port.

[Disabled]

Disables the onboard channel SATA port.

The following items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel item to [Enabled].

SATA Port1–Port4 [AHCI]

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.

[IDE]

Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as

 

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[RAID]

Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the

 

SATA hard disk drives.

[AHCI]

Set to [AHCI] 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.

SATA Port5–eSATA [AHCI]�����

Setting this item to [IDE] instead of [RAID] or [AHCI] allows the system to recognize the optical drives connected to the SATA connectors 5 or eSATA when installing Windows OS.

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