ASUS RS704D-E6/PS8 ユーザーズマニュアル

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Chapter 5: BIOS setup

The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the IDE 

devices installed in the system. Select an item then press <Enter> if you wish to 

configure the item.

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Compatible] [Enhanced]

Configure SATA as [IDE]

Sets the configuration for the Serial ATA connectors supported by the 

Southbridge chip. Configuration options: [IDE] [RAID] [AHCI]

•  If you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as Parallel ATA physical 

storage devices, keep the default setting [IDE].

•  If you want the Serial ATA hard disk drives to use the Advanced Host 

Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI]. 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.

•  If you want to use LSI

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 MegaRAID or the Intel

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 Matrix Storage Technology 

configuration from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to [RAID].

Disables or enables device write protection. This will be effective only if the device 

is accessed through BIOS.  

Configuration option: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Selects the time out value for detecting ATA/ATAPI devices.  

Configuration options: [0] [5] [10] [15] [20] [25] [30] [35]