Asus X99-DELUXE II SERIES Bios Manual page 44

SATA Controller 1 Mode Selection
This item allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
[IDE]
[AHCI]
[RAID]
The following item appears only when you set the SATA Mode Selection to [IDE].
SATA6G_1-6 (Gray)
These items display all connected devices to SATA6G ports. If some ports are not
used, these items show [Not Installed].
Support Aggressive Link Power Management
This item is designed for LPM (link power management) support with a better energy saving
conditions. When disabled, the hot plug function of SATA ports are disabled.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA6G_1(Gray) - SATA6G_6(Gray)
SATA6G_1(Gray) - SATA6G_6(Gray)
This item allows you to enable or disable the selected SATA port.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
Hot Plug
These items appears only when the SATA Mode Selection is set to [AHCI] and allows
you to enable or disable SATA Hot Plug Support.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
44
Disables the SATA function.
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
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.
Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA
hard disk drives.
ASUS X99-DELUXE II Series BIOS Manual