Storage Configuration - Asus Maximus II Gene User Manual

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Storage Configuration

The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the SATA
devices installed in the system. Select an item then press <Enter> if you want to
configure the item.
Main
Storage Configuration
SATA Configuraton
Configure SATA as
Hard Disk Write Protect
IDE 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 [Compatible] or [Enhanced].
[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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[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 (Advabced 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.
Enable device write protection. This function will be effective only if
the device is accessed through BIOS.
Disable this function.
Set [Compatible Mode]
when Legacy OS (i.e.
WIN ME, 98, NT4.0, MS
DOS) is used.
Set [Enhanced Mode]
when Native OS (i.e.
WIN2000, Win XP, Vista
is used.
Chapter 3: BIOS setup