Asus Z7S WS manual AHCI Configuration, AHCI Port1~6, Configure SATA as IDE, SATA Port0 Auto

Configure SATA as [IDE]

This sub-item appears only when you set the ATA/IDE Configuration item to [Enhanced] and allows you to set the SATA configuration.

Configuration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI]

•If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical

storage devices, keep the default setting [IDE].

•When set to [IDE] mode, SATA port 1 will serve as Primary Master, SATA port 3 will serve as Primary Slave, SATA port 2 will serve as Secondary Master, and SATA port 4 will serve as Secondary Slave. SATA port 5 and 6 will be disabled.

•If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. 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.

•If you want to create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, or the

Intel® Matrix Storage Technology configuration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

AHCI Configuration

This menu is the section for AHCI configuration. It appears only when you set the item ATA/IDE Configuration from the sub-menu of IDE Configuration to [AHCI].

AHCI Settings	While entering
	setup, BIOS auto
AHCI Port1 [Not Detected]	detects the
AHCI Port2 [Not Detected]	presence of
AHCI Port3 [Not Detected]	IDE devices. This
AHCI Port4 [Not Detected]	desplays the
AHCI Port5 [Not Detected]	status of auto
AHCI Port6 [Not Detected]	detection of IDE
	devices.

AHCI Port1~6 [XXXX]

Displays the status of auto-detection of SATA devices.

AHCI Port0			Select	the	type
Device	:Not Detected		of devices		connected
			to the	system.
SATA Port0		[Auto]

SATA Port0 [Auto]

Allows you to select the type of device connected to the system. Configuration options: [Auto] [Not Installed]

ASUS Z7S WS 4-15