Manual Setting is the only item available when Chassis Smart Fan Control is
set to [Manual by Duty-Cycle].
3.3.8
IDE Configuration
Serial-ATA (SATA) [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable Serial-ATA. Configuration options: [Enabled]
[Disabled]
SATA Mode [IDE Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[AHCI Mode]
[IDE Mode]
SATA Speed Support [Gen2]
Allows you to select the SATA speed. Configuration options: [Gen1] [Gen2]
Serial-ATA Port 0~1 [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable Serial-ATA Ports. Configuration options: [Enabled]
[Disabled]
SATA Port 0/1 HotPlug [Disabled]
Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
ASMedia Operation
SATA Mode [AHCI Mode]
Allows you to set the SATA mode.
Chapter 3: BIOS setup
Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to
use AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). 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 [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk
drives as Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
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