Asus CROSSHAIR V FORMULA User Manual page 103

SATA.Port5-Port6.[AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration. This item appears only when you set the
OnChip SATA Channel item to [Enabled].
[IDE] Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives
as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[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.
You can only set SATA Port5-Port6 to [IDE] if Port1-Port4 is set to [IDE]
S.M.A.R.T..Status.Check.[Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor
system. When read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard
disk to report warning messages during the POST.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA.Hot.Plug.on.PORT1-6.[Disabled]
Allows you to set SATA Hot Plug on PORT1-6 to external SATA port.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
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