ASUS P5Q Manual Do Utilizador

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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

Selects the DMA mode. 

Configuration options: [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1] [SWDMA2] [MWDMA0] 

[MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA2] [UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5] 

Sets the Smart Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. 

Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]

Enables or disables 32-bit data transfer.  

Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

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.

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 create a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, or the Intel

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Matrix Storage Technology configuration from the Serial ATA hard disk 

drives, set this item to [RAID].