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.
EFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode
Main | Ai Tweaker | Advanced | Monitor | |
Back | Advanced\ SATA Configuration | > |
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SATA Configuration |
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| AHCI Mode |
SATA Mode |
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S.M.A.R.T. Status Check |
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| Enabled | |
SATA 6G_1 (Gray) |
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| Not Present | |
Hot Plug |
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| Disabled |
SATA 6G_2 (Gray) |
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| Not Present | |
Hot Plug |
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SATA 3G_3 (Blue) | ASUS | |||
Hot Plug |
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| Disabled |
SATA 3G_4 (Blue) |
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| Not Present | |
Hot Plug |
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| Disabled |
SATA 3G_5 (Blue) |
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| Not Present | |
Hot Plug |
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| Disabled |
SATA 3G_6 (Blue) |
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| Not Present | |
Exit
BootTool
(1)IDE Mode. (2) AHCI Mode. (3) RAID Mode.
→←: Select Screen
↑↓: Select Item
Enter: Select
F1: General Help
F2: Previous Values
F5: Optimized Defaults
F10: Save ESC: Exit
F12: Print Screen
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Scroll down to display the following items:
Hot Plug | Disabled |
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SATA Mode [AHCI Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[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 configuration from the |
| SATA hard disk drives. |
Serial-ATA Controller 0 [Enhanced]
This item appear only when you set the previous item to [IDE Mode]
Chapter 3: BIOS setup |