Sata Configuration - Asus M5A97 EVO User Manual

3.5.3

SATA 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.
UEFI BIOS Utility - Advanced Mode
Main
Back Advanced\
SATA Configuration
SATA Port1
SATA Port2
SATA Port3
SATA Port4
SATA Port5
SATA Port6
> SB SATA Configuration
SB SATA Configuration
Options for SATA Configuration.
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
[Enabled]
[Disabled] Disables the onboard channel SATA port.
The following two items appear only when you set the OnChip SATA Channel item to
[Enabled].
SATA Port1–Port4 [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[IDE]
[RAID]
[AHCI]
SATA Port5–Port6 [AHCI]
Setting this item to [IDE] instead of [RAID] or [AHCI] allows the system to recognize the
optical drives connected to the SATA connectors 5 or 6 when installing Windows XP
OS.
When the SATA Port1–Port 4 and the SATA Port5–Port 6 items are set to [AHCI], the
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information of the SATA connectors 1–6 can be seen only under the OS environment
or during POST.
• For Windows
SATA connectors 1–6 in AHCI mode under the OS environment.
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Ai Tweaker
Advanced
SATA Configuration >
Enables the onboard channel SATA port.
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
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.
XP OS, you have to install the AHCI driver, so that you could use the
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Monitor Boot
Options for SATA Configuration.
Not Present
Not Present
Not Present
Not Present
Not Present
Not Present
Exit
Tool
Chapter 3: BIOS setup