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level interface for a Host Controller for Serial ATA. The specification includes a description of
the hardware/software interface between system software and the host controller hardware.
AHCI provides more advanced features including SATA features, but some SATA drives may
not support AHCI, unless they are labeled with AHCI support in its specification.
If your motherboard supporting AHCI, and you have a SATA device, which also supports AHCI,
then you can select IDE option to have fair performance (only PATA, SATA level), or you can
select AHCI to get its best performance.
► SATA#2 Configuration
SATA#2 are the SATA ports 5,6 of the motherboard. This item allows you select the mode of
the SATA ports. Setting values are: [Disabled], [Enhanced].
► AHCI Configuration (Appears when "Configure SATA#1" is set to[AHCI])
Press [Enter] to set AHCI settings. You can enable BIOS to support AHCI and select the wait-
ing time for CD/DVD devices in AHCI mode. This sub-menu also displays the status of IDE
devices.
► Primary/Secondary/Fifth/Sixth IDE Master/Slave, Third/Fourth IDE Master
While entering setup, BIOS automatically detects the presence of IDE devices. This item
displays the drive information of IDE devices. Please refer to the mapping table in next page.
► Hot Plug (Appears when "Configure SATA#1" is set to[RAID]/[AHCI])
This item is used to enable or disable hot plug function for SATA hard disks when in RAID/
AHCI mode.
► IDE Detect Time Out
This item is used to select the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices. If the checking
time is over the set value, the system will skip it.
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