• When the SATA Port1–Port 4 and the SATA Port5–eSATAitems are set to [AHCI], the information of the SATA connectors 1–5 & eSATA can be seen only under the OS environment or during POST.

For Windows® XP OS, you have to install the AHCI driver, so that you could use the SATA connectors 1–5 & eSATA in AHCI mode under the OS environment.

If you use a SATA optical drive to run the Windows OS installation disk, we strongly recommend that you install the optical drive to the SATA connector 5 & eSATA and set them to [IDE] mode.

S.M.A.R.T Status Check [Enabled]

[Enabled]

Enables the S.M.A.R.T feature.

[Disabled]

Disables the S.M.A.R.T feature.

SATA ESP on PORT1 [Disabled]

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

SATA ESP on PORT2 [Disabled]

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

SATA ESP on PORT3 [Disabled]

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

SATA ESP on PORT4 [Disabled]

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

SATA ESP on PORT5 [Disabled]

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

SATA ESP on eSATA [Disabled]

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

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