Usb Configuration - Asus A78M-E User Manual

OnChip SATA Type [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[IDE]
[RAID]
[AHCI]
SATA Port 5 - Port 6 [AHCI]
This item only appears when OnChip SATA Type is set to [AHCI]. If SATA ports 5,
6 are configured as [AHCI], the ports can only be used under Windows
requested drivers installed. Set to [IDE] instead of [AHCI] to access devices on SATA
ports 5, 6 before entering OS. Configuration options: [AHCI] [IDE]
SATA Port 5 - Port 6 [RAID]
This item only appears when OnChip SATA Type is set to [RAID]. If SATA ports 5,
6 are configured as [RAID], the ports can only be used under Windows
requested drivers installed. Set to [IDE] instead of [RAID] to access devices on SATA
ports 5, 6 before entering OS. Configuration options: [RAID] [IDE]
OnChip SATA MAX Speed [SATA 6.0Gb/s]
For better HDD compatibility, set the SATA Speed to [SATA 3.0Gb/s] to support SATA
3.0Gb/s HDDs or [SATA 6.0Gb/s] to support SATA 6.0Gb/s HDDs. Configuration options:
[SATA 6.0Gb/s] [SATA 3.0Gb/s]
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self‑Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. When
read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard disk to report warning
messages during the POST. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
SATA ESP on Port1~6 [Disabled]
Enable this item to support ESATA. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled]
2.6.3

USB Configuration

The items in this menu allow you to change the USB‑related features.
The USB Devices item shows the auto‑detected values. If no USB device is detected, the
item shows None.
USB Device Enable [Enabled]
Allows you to enable or disable all USB ports. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
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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.
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Chapter 2: BIOS information