Storage Configuration - Asus KGMH-D16 QDR User Manual

4.3.4

Storage Configuration

The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the
IDE/SATA devices installed in the system. Select an item then press <Enter> if you
wish to configure the item.
Main
Storage Configuration
OnChip SATA Channel
SATA Port1- Port4
SATA Port5- Port6
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA Port1-Port4 [IDE]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[IDE]
[RAID]
[AHCI]
SATA Port5-Port6
Setting this item to [IDE] instead of [RAID] or [AHCI] allows the system to
recognize the optical drives connected to the SATA connectors 5 or 6 when
installing OS.
If SATA Port1-Port4 is set to [IDE], SATA Port5-Port6 can only be configured as
[IDE]
4-12
[Enabled]
[IDE]
[IDE]
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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.
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
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Chapter 4: BIOS setup