Storage Configuration - Asus P6X58D-E User Manual

3.4.2

Storage Configuration

The Storage Configuration menu allows you to configure your storage devices. Select an item
then press <Enter> to display the submenu.
Main
Storage Configuration
SATA Configuration
Configure SATA as
Hard Disk Write Protect
SATA Detect Time Out (Sec)
SATA Configuration [Enhanced]
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]
Configure SATA as [IDE]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration. This item appears only when you set the
SATA Configuration item to [Enhanced] or [Compatible].
[IDE]
[RAID]
[AHCI]
Hard Disk Write Protect [Disabled]
[Enabled]
[Disabled]
SATA Detect Time Out (Sec) [35]
Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices from the following options: [0] [5]
[10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35]
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P6X58D-E BIOS Setup
[Enhanced]
[IDE]
[Disabled]
[35]
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.
Enables device write protection. This function will be effective only if the
device is accessed through BIOS.
Disables this function.
Chapter 3: BIOS setup