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Chapter 5: BIOS setup

While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA 

devices. The SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to 

the corresponding SATA port.

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.  

Configuration options: [Disabled] [IDE Mode] [AHCI Mode] [RAID Mode]

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

storage devices, keep the default setting [IDE Mode].

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

Controller Interface (AHCI), set this item to [AHCI Mode]. 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 RAID sets with LSI MegaRAID utility, or Intel

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 Matrix 

Storage Technology from the Serial ATA hard disk drives, set this item to 

[RAID Mode].

This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]. Set to 

[Enhanced] to support two SATA 6.0 Gb/s and two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices. Set to 

[Compatible] when using Windows 98/NT/2000/MS-DOS. Up to four SATA devices 

are supported under these operating systems.

This item appears only when you set the SATA Mode item to [IDE Mode]. Set to 

[Enhanced] to support two SATA 3.0 Gb/s devices.

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]