4.5.4PCH SATA Configuration

Aptio Setup Utility - Copyright (C) 2011 American Megatrends, Inc.

Advanced

SATA Port1

ST3500320AS(500GB)

(1)IDE Mode. (2)AHCI Mode.

SATA Port2

Not Present

(3)RAID Mode.

SATA Port3

Not Present

 

SATA Port4

Not Present

 

SATA Port5

ASUS DRW ATAPI

 

SATA Port6

Not Present

 

SATA Mode

[AHCI Mode]

 

S.M.A.R.T. Status Check

[Enabled]

 

Aggressive Link Power Management[Enabled]

 

Port1 Staggered Spin-up

[Disabled]

 

Port2 Staggered Spin-up

[Disabled]

 

Port3 Staggered Spin-up

[Disabled]

→←: Select Screen

Port4 Staggered Spin-up

[Disabled]

↑↓: Select Item

Port5 Staggered Spin-up

[Disabled]

Enter: Select Item

Port6 Staggered Spin-up

[Disabled]

+/-: Change Opt.

 

 

F1: General Help

 

 

F2: Previous Values

 

 

F5: Optimized Defaults

 

 

F10: Save & Exit

 

 

ESC: Exit

 

 

 

Version 2.14.1219. Copyright (C) 2011 American Megatrends, Inc.

SATA Mode [AHCI Mode]

This item allows you to set the SATA configuration.

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

• If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices, set this item to [IDE Mode].

•If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host Controller

Interface (AHCI), keep the default setting [AHCI Mode]. 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 RAID sets with LSI MegaRAID utility, or Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID Mode].

AHCI Mode

Allows you to enable the Aggressive Link Power Management and support Staggered Spin-up.

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

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. When hard disk read/write errors occur, this feature allows the hard disk to report warning messages during the POST.

Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]

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